Baudrillard

/ bodrijɑr /

noun

1. Jean. 1929–2007, French sociologist and theorist of postmodernism; his books include Seduction (1979), America (1986), and The Spirit of Terrorism (2002)

Example Sentences

She found herself turning to Europe, where thinkers like Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard and Jacques Derrida were asking radical questions about art, literature and culture, offering insights that enabled Professor Fuchs to explain what she was seeing in the cramped theaters of Lower Manhattan.

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The term, coined by French post-modernist Jean Baudrillard in 1981, essentially describes a state in which simulations of reality appear more "real" than reality.

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In his book "Simulacra and Simulation," Baudrillard uses the example of Disneyland to describe hyperreality.

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Media technologies often define wars in popular memory, from Mathew Brady’s photographs of the Civil War to the grainy televised images of Vietnam to the cable coverage of the Persian Gulf War, which seemed so carefully choreographed that it prompted the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard to make the tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the war hadn’t actually happened.

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It’s the first horror film I’ve seen that includes both a feminist defense of Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” and a discussion of Baudrillard’s nihilism.

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