Baudrillard

British

/ bodrijɑr /

noun

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

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The paradoxes of Gaspery’s adventure will be familiar to anyone who’s studied Jean Baudrillard or seen “Back to the Future.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2022

Baudrillard was not a fan of the change.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2021

Back then, the French theorist Jean Baudrillard contended that the difference between actuality and mere simulation had long since broken down, a notion encapsulated in the postmodern concept of “hyperreality”.

From The Guardian • Sep. 13, 2020

The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, traveling in New Mexico in the 1980s, declared that in America, deserts “denote the emptiness, the radical nudity that is the background to every human institution.”

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2020

Several other writers have attempted to characterize the USA, or at least some of its aspects: Jean Baudrillard.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

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