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Baudrillard was born in Reims, northeastern France, on 27 July 1929.His grandparents were farm workers and his father a gendarme.During high school (at the Lycée at Reims), he became aware of 'pataphysics, a parody of the philosophy of science, via philosophy professor Emmanuel Peillet, which is said to be crucial for understanding Baudrillard's later thought.
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (French: La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas eu lieu) is a collection of three short essays by Jean Baudrillard published in the French newspaper Libération and British paper The Guardian between January and March 1991.
Simulacra and Simulation (French: Simulacres et Simulation) is a 1981 philosophical treatise by the philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard, in which he seeks to examine the relationships between reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.
In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, Or, the End of the Social (French: À l’ombre des majorités silencieuses ou la fin du social) is a 1978 philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard, in which he analyzes the masses and their relation to meaning.
The Mirror of Production (French: Le Miroir de la production) is a 1973 book by French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard. It is a systematic critique of Marxism . Baudrillard's thesis is that Karl Marx 's theory of historical materialism is too rooted in assumptions and values of political economy which Marx attempted to critique to ...
[7] Jean Baudrillard defines 'pataphysics as "the imaginary science of our world, the imaginary science of excess, of excessive, parodic, paroxystic effects - particularly the excess of emptiness and insignificance". [8] There are over one hundred definitions of 'pataphysics. [9] Some examples are shown below.
The French sociologist Jean Baudrillard proposed the theory of sign value as a philosophic and economic counterpart to the dichotomy of exchange-value vs. use-value, which Karl Marx recognized as a characteristic of capitalism as an economic system.
The Singular Objects of Architecture is a book written by French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard.It consists of the two conversations that he had with French architect, Jean Nouvel in 1997 at Maison des Ecrivains and the University of Paris VI-La Villette School of Architecture.