When Baudrillard writes that we live in an age of simulacra, he is not wrong. The phenomena he describes can be observed in corner video stores, supermarket aisles, and neighborhood gas stations as ...

Without wanting to sound too much like Baudrillard, it’s remarkable the extent to which so much of the British political ...

Say: This is a simulacrum, you are merely a simulacrum, this war is a simulacrum—everyone bursts out laughing.—Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime 95 Were it not for appearances, the world would be a ...

Societies experiencing unprecedented levels of plenty still continue to experience high levels of depression. Our ...

As the philosopher Baudrillard explains, "Consumption is a system of meaning." We assign value to ourselves and others based on the goods we purchase. One's identity is now constructed by the ...

Bosnians have experience with genocide. Not just the signs of it coming. Not just the fact of it happening. But also this ...

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Amazon’s new series sees the ultra-wealthy seal themselves away from the apocalypse above. Its premise is frighteningly close ...

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To put it another way: "In photography, we see nothing," wrote French philosopher Jean Baudrillard in his 1999 essay, Photography or Light Writing. "We are never in the real presence of the object.

Mr. Auster often described himself as a throwback who preferred Emily Brontë over the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, as he said in a 2009 interview with the British newspaper The Independent.

This coincidence – real-world replicating video games, replicating real-life – caused me to think of French cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard, well-known for his theory of “hyperreality ...