Few philosophers score a book-to-film treatment, and fewer still become blockbusters. Jean Baudrillard-the scholar whose idea of simulation both inspired and appeared in The Matrix (1999)-is the rare ...

The French critic and provocateur Jean Baudrillard, whose theories about consumer culture and the manufactured nature of reality were intensely discussed both in rarefied philosophical circles and in ...

The death Tuesday in Paris of French theoretician Jean Baudrillard prompted some unusual Internet postings, including “Baudrillard’s Death Did Not Happen,” “Jean Baudrillard did not take place,” ...

A few days ago, I tried the thought experiment of pretending never to have read anything by Jean Baudrillard – instead trying to form an impression based only on media coverage following his death ...

Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly, Everyone going home lost in thought? Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven’t come. And some of our men just in from the border say ...

Jean Baudrillard, philosopher, social theorist and photographer: born Reims, France 29 July 1929; twice married (two children); died Paris 6 March 2007. Jean Baudrillard, the French writer of ...

Jean Baudrillard: 'I keep a distance from the world which, for me, is not truly real' Jean Baudrillard, who died on Tuesday aged 77, was a leading post-modernist thinker and social theorist best known ...

AT SOME point in his career—neither date nor time being important—Jean Baudrillard took a large red cloth, draped it over a chair in his apartment, and sat on it. He may have smoked or thought for a ...

When Baudrillard writes that we live in an age of simulacra, he is not wrong. The phenomena he describes can be observed in corner video stores, supermarket aisles, and neighborhood gas stations as ...