Jean Baudrillard's death did not take place. "Dying is pointless," he once wrote. "You have to know how to disappear." The New Yorker reported a reading the French sociologist gave in a New York ...

The name of the Simulacra gallery at the 798 Art Zone in Beijing nods to the important postmodern commentator Jean Baudrillard, whose Simulacres et Simulation questioned the sincerity of experiences ...

Jean Baudrillard: Jean Baudrillard's death did not take place. "Dying is pointless," he once wrote. "You have to know how to disappear." The New Yorkerreported a reading the French sociologist gave in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jean Baudrillard, philosopher, social theorist and photographer: born Reims, France 29 July 1929; twice married (two children); died Paris 6 March 2007. Jean Baudrillard, the French writer of ...

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 ...