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: Jean Baudrillard's death did not take place. "Dying is pointless," he once wrote. "You have to know how to disappear." The New Yorkerreported a reading the French sociologist gave in ...

Even among those who have never read any of his books, Jean Baudrillard is celebrated for his ideas of “simulation” and “hyperreality”, which he uses to describe a world in which, as he sees it, ...

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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 ...

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 ...