Baudrillard
Britishnoun
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“CNN seeks to be a stethoscope attached to the hypothetical heart of the war, and to present us with its hypothetical pulse,” the French theorist Jean Baudrillard wrote, critiquing the conflict as a media spectacle.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
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
Consciously or otherwise, Baudrillard was embroidering atop the things that Maher and Stockhausen had already said: We understood that the terrorists had done something daring and spectacular that had changed our relationship to reality.
From Salon • Sep. 11, 2021
On the warfare waged by the Church on luxury in the Middle Ages, see Baudrillard, Histoire du Luxe privé et publique, vol. iii. pp.
From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by O'Brien, George
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