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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.
Jean Baudrillard (born July 29, 1929, Reims, France—died March 6, 2007, Paris) 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.
Jun 23, 2023 · 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.”
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.
Mar 28, 2018 · Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) was a prolific writer, the author of over thirty major works, and he influenced many academic disciplines including communication studies, sociology, political theory, media and cultural studies, art and photography, and design and architecture.
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).
Since his untimely death on 6 March 2007, at the age of 77, Jean Baudrillard’s work has, perhaps inevitably, slipped from the kind of mainstream prominence that once routinely drew not only academics but also artists and journalists into its orbit.
Oct 2, 2021 · Jean Baudrillard’s theoretical system contains two significant categories of analysis: an anthropological notion of symbolic exchange, which is contrasted with that of simulation. The development of his conception of symbolic exchange, from the 1970s into the...
