When Morpheus first explains to Neo the nature of the Matrix, he uses the expression, Welcome, to the desert of the real. Paraphrasing the writing of Jean Baudrillard s Simulacra and Simulation , it ...

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 ...

THE French critic and provocateur Jean Baudrillard, whose theories about consumer culture and the manufactured nature of reality were intensely discussed in philosophical circles and in blockbuster ...

French critic and provocateur Jean Baudrillard, whose theories about consumer culture and the manufactured nature of reality were intensely discussed both in rarefied philosophical circles and in ...

The death of the 77-year-old French thinker Jean Baudrillard — best known for the flamboyant title of his 1991 screed, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, and the salute to his doubts about reality in ...

The death Tuesday in Paris of French theoretician Jean Baudrillard prompted some unusual Internet postings, including “Baudrillard’s Death Did Not Happen,” “Jean Baudrillard did not take place,” ...

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 ...