Thursday, March 08, 2007
Is Baudrillard Dead?
I'm sad to report that Jean Baudrillard, the French cultural theorist and intellectual died on March 6th in Paris.
I don't think that I can write anything that will give enough credit to his contribution to post-modernism and post-structuralism (check the Wiki entry). Baudrillard commented on many topics but is best remembered for his notions of hyperreality and simulation. He sought to understand the world by the analysis of the power of objects to seduce and simulate reality.
"Some know how to slip away at the appropriate moment. Their death is a stroke of cleverness: it makes the world more enigmatic, more difficult to understand that it was when they were alive, which is the true task of thought."
I don't think that I can write anything that will give enough credit to his contribution to post-modernism and post-structuralism (check the Wiki entry). Baudrillard commented on many topics but is best remembered for his notions of hyperreality and simulation. He sought to understand the world by the analysis of the power of objects to seduce and simulate reality.
"Some know how to slip away at the appropriate moment. Their death is a stroke of cleverness: it makes the world more enigmatic, more difficult to understand that it was when they were alive, which is the true task of thought."
# posted by Michael @ 11:36 PM 
