Like his intellectual predecessors – Nietzsche, Artaud, and Bataille – Jean Baudrillard was that rarity of a cultural philosopher, a thinker whose reflections, refusing to be simply culturally mimetic ...

Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher, sociologist, and social theorist who was best known for his work on consumerism, modern excesses, and what he called reality’s disappearance, including a 1991 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, whose provocative, paradoxical style was reflected in the title of his 1991 work "The Gulf War did not take place", has died, his publisher ...

It is easy to see that the moral sense has been bred out of certain sections of the population, like the wings have been bred off certain chickens to produce more white meat on them. This is a ...

Interviews, some translated from French, German, or Italian, which originally appeared in Flash art international, 1985-1988. "Interviews with ... Baudrillard ...

The functional system, or objective discourse -- The non-functional system, or subjective discourse -- The metafunctional and dysfunctional system : gadgets and robots -- The socio-ideological system ...