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Jean Baudrillard (French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ], UK: / ˈ b oʊ d r ɪ j ɑːr /, US: / ˌ b oʊ d r i ˈ ɑːr /, ; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies.
Feb 26, 2018 · In a society dominated by production, Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) argues, the difference between use-value and exchange-value has some pertinence. Certainly, for a time, Marx was able to provide a relatively plausible explanation of the growth of capitalism using just these categories.
Apr 22, 2005 · Associated with postmodern and poststructuralist theory, Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) is difficult to situate in relation to traditional and contemporary philosophy. His work combines philosophy, social theory, and an idiosyncratic cultural metaphysics that reflects on key events and phenomena of the epoch.
Jul 1, 2024 · Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and cultural theorist whose theoretical ideas of “hyperreality” and “simulacrum” influenced literary theory and philosophy, especially in the United States, and spread into popular culture.
Jul 9, 2020 · This condition has pitilessly intensified in our era of smartphones and social media, and though philosopher and sociologist Jean Baudrillard died three months before the introduction of the iPhone, nothing about it would surprise him.
The interminable psychoanalysis. There is a whole chapter to add to the history of transference and countertransference: that of their liquidation by simulation, of the impossible psychoanalysis because it is itself, from now on, that produces and reproduces the unconscious as its institutional substance.
A transdisciplinary thinker, Jean Baudrillard could be described as a philosopher, critical theorist, and sociologist—and at the same time none of these. At different times in his life, he would label himself a pataphysician, situationist, even “abreactionary.”
To those who would deny that Baudrillard is a postmodern theorist and has nothing to do with the discourse of the postmodern (e.g. Gane 1991 and 1993), one might note that Baudrillard uses the concept of the postmodern in his books of the 1990s (Baudrillard 1994b: 23, 27, 31, 34, 36, 107, passim; and Baudrillard 1996a: 36, 70 passim).
Sep 11, 2001 · Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet, with 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.
Jean Baudrillard was a post-structuralist and post-modernist philosopher, sociologist, cultural theorist, photographer and political commentator.
