“we have to fight against charges of unreality, lack of responsibility, nihilism, and despair”
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and po…
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culture · French sociologist and philosopher (1929–2007) · philosopher · photographer · translator · sociologist · university teacher · literary critic · anthropologist · also Jean Baudrillard, Baudrillard
Born 27 July 1929 · Died 6 March 2007 · Q182847
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2026· 3 entries
“power itself must be abolished—and not solely in the refusal to be dominated [...] but also, just as violently, in the refusal to dominate.”
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“we have the particle accelerator that has smashed the referential orbit of things once and for all.”
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2025· 1 entry
Sud Ouest: Jean Baudrillard, le philosophe qui a prédit l’intelligence artificielle, trente ans avant ChatGPT
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2024· 1 entry
Fabula: Jean Baudrillard, Simulacres et simulation
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2015· 2 entries
Stated that "In common with many post-structuralists, his arguments consistently draw upon the notion that signification and meaning are both only understandable in terms of how particular words or 'signs' interrelate"
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Wrote that "The most severe" of Baudrillard's "critics accuse him of being a purveyor of a form of reality-denying irrationalism"
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2013· 1 entry
From academic writer Andrew Robinson of Ceasefire magazine, who declares Baudrillard's work as both sexist and racist, while also containing ableist undertones, stating: "Many of his [Baudrillard's] formulations are inad
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2007· 2 entries
Died 2007-03-06.
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The four pieces were collected and published posthumously as The Agony of Power, a polemic against power itself
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2005· 1 entry
Baudrillard battled the disease for two years from his apartment on Rue Sainte-Beuve, Paris, dying at the age of 77
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2004· 1 entry
Baudrillard attended the major conference on his work, "Baudrillard and the Arts", at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany
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1998· 1 entry
Described Baudrillard's photography as "wistful, elegiac and oddly haunting", like "movie stills of unregarded moments"
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1996· 1 entry
Remarked that what Baudrillard's De la séduction was culpable of "celebrating [
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1994· 1 entry
More than 20 years later, Jean and Marine got married
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1991· 1 entry
Writing for Science Fiction Studies, Vivian Sobchack alleged that "The man [Baudrillard] is really dangerous" for lacking "moral gaze", while J
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1986· 1 entry
Moved to IRIS (Institut de Recherche et d'Information Socio-Économique) at the Université de Paris-IX Dauphine, where he spent the latter part of his teaching career
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1981· 1 entry
In Japan, which led to him becoming a photographer
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1970· 2 entries
While working as a professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre, 41-year-old Baudrillard met 25-year-old Marine Dupuis, who had just come back from a sailing trip around the world with her then-boyfriend
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Baudrillard made the first of his many trips to the United States (Aspen, Colorado), and in 1973, the first of several trips to Kyoto, Japan
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1966· 1 entry
His doctoral thesis Le Système des Objets (The System of Objects) under the dissertation committee of Henri Lefebvre, Roland Barthes, and Pierre Bourdieu (the thesis was published as a book in 1968)
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-07-27.
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