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Jean Baudrillard | |
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 Baudrillard in 2004 at the European Graduate School | |
| Born | 27 July 1929 Reims, France |
| Died | 6 March 2007 (aged 77) Paris, France |
| Alma mater | University of Paris |
| Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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| Thesis | Le système des objets (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Henri Lefebvre |
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Jean Baudrillard (UK: /ˈboʊdrɪjɑːr/ BOHD-rih-yar,[17] US: /ˌboʊdriˈɑːr/ BOHD-ree-AR, French: [ʒɑ̃ bodʁijaʁ]; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher and poet,[18] with interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his most well-known works are Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.[19][20] Nevertheless, Baudrillard had also opposed post-structuralism,[21][22] and had distanced himself from postmodernism.[23][24]
- ^ James M. Russell. "Meaning and Interpretation: The Continental Tradition". A Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics: From Plato to Winnie the Pooh.
- ^ Gane, M. (2017). Baudrillard. In A Companion to Continental Philosophy (eds S. Critchley and W.R. Schroeder). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405164542.ch53
- ^ Fisher, Mark (9 March 2007). "My Death Is Everywhere, My Death Dreams". Archived from the original on 6 January 2022.
Baudrillard was never quite laborious or detached enough to qualify as a Continentalist, nor even as a philosopher (he was based, improbably, in a Sociology department). Always an outsider, projected out of the peasantry into the elite academic class, he ensured his marginalization with the marvellously provocative Forget Foucault, which wittily targeted Deleuze and Guattari's micropolitics as much as it insouciantly announced the redundancy of Fo[u]cault's vast edifice.
- ^ Baker, Stephen (2000). The Fiction of Postmodernity. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 64.
- ^ Smith, Richard G. (2003). "Baudrillard's nonrepresentational theory: burn the signs and journey without maps". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 21 (1): 67–84. Bibcode:2003EnPlD..21...67S. doi:10.1068/d280t. S2CID 18273234.
- ^ Reversed Necropolitics and the Death Imaginary (PDF), 14 October 2016, archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2020
- ^ Terror And Performance – Asymmetric Warfare, Martyrdom, And Necropolitics. An application of Achille Mbembe's study of Necropolitics to Baudrillard's notion of death.
- ^ Fatal Strategies Semiotext(e) FOREIGN AGENTS SERIES Originally published in 1983 as Les Strategies fatales by Editions Grasset, Paris. Translated by Philippe Beitchman and W. G. J. Niesluchowski ISBN 978-1-58435-061-3
- ^ a b Baudrillard and the Art Conspiracy (ucla.edu) (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2021,
Baudrillard calls this situation "transaesthetics" which he relates to similar phenomena of "transpolitics," "transsexuality," and "transeconomics," in which everything becomes political, sexual, and economic, so that these domains, like art, lose their specificity, their boundaries, their distinctness. The result is a confused and imploded condition where there are no more criteria of value, of judgment, of taste, and the function of the normative thus collapses in a morass of indifference and inertia.
- ^ Baudrillard, J. (2005) The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays, New York, Los Angeles: Semiotext(e).
- ^ From Nietzsche to Baudrillard: Semiological Absorption and Seductive Attunement 'Chapter Four: Raw Phenomenology and the Fundamental Rule of Reversibility' "Baudrillard has referred to his work as raw phenomenology"
- ^ Simulacra and Simulation, "Value's Last Tango", "Moebius: spiralling negativity"
- ^ Seduction, Jean Baudrillard, English language copyright New World Perspectives, 1990. translated by Brian Singer, ISBN 0-920393-25-X, page 134, "The Passion for Rules" "For us the finite is always set against the infinite; but the sphere of ritual is neither finite nor infinite- transfinite perhaps. It has its own finite contours, with which it resists the infinity of analytic space. To reinvent a rule is to resist the linear infinitude of analytic space to recover a reversible space." "For us the finite is always set against the infinite; but the sphere of games is neither finite nor infinite – transfinite perhaps. It has its own finite contours, with which it resists the infinity of analytic space. To reinvent a rule is to resist the linear infinitude of analytic space to recover a reversible space."
- ^ "The transfinite is a concept originating in set theory, and was developed for linguistics by Julia Kristeva." "Baudrillard introduces the idea of a new stage of value, beyond the structural revolution, and uses the concept of the "transfinite" to further characterize the generalized implosion of categories and erasure of distinctions that characterized modern thought and modern societies." Nihilism in Postmodernity: Lyotard, Baudrillard, Vattimo. Ashley Woodward (2009). ISBN 978-1-934542-08-8. The Davies Group, Publishers
- ^ Mike Gane: the transfinite "indicates that which has passed beyond the finite, which is thus 'more than' a finite figure, but is not infinite." Baudrillard's Bestiary: Baudrillard and Culture (London; New York: Routledge, 1991). 126-7.
- ^ Zurbrugg (2006), pp. 482–500; Poole (2007a); Poole (2007b); Poole (2007c)
- ^ "Baudrillard, Jean". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 14 April 2021.
- ^ Poole (2007a); Poole (2007b); Poole (2007c); Gane (1993); Coulter (2008); Smith (2010)
- ^ Kellner (2019); Aylesworth (2015); Redhead (2013)
- ^ Brennan, Eugene (2017). "Pourquoi la guerre aujourd'hui? by Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida (review)". French Studies: A Quarterly Review. 71 (3): 449. doi:10.1093/fs/knx092. Project MUSE 666299.
- ^ Attias (2011); Poole (2007a); Poole (2007b); Poole (2007c); Wolters (2015)
- ^ "'Nobody Needs French Theory' – an extract from Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance". Edinburgh University Press. 15 July 2015. Archived from the original on 5 January 2023. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
- ^ Antonio (2007): "Asked about postmodernism, Baudrillard said: “I have nothing to do with it. I don’t know who came up with the term... But I have no faith in ‘postmodernism’ as an analytical term. When people say: ‘you are a postmodernist,’ I answer: “Well why not?’ The term simply avoids the issue itself.” He declared that he was a “nihilist, not a postmodernist.” (Baudrillard and Lie 2007:3–4)."; Zurbrugg (2006), pp. 482–500; Aylesworth (2015); Kellner (2019)
- ^ "The art of disappearing – BAUDRILLARD NOW". 22 January 2021. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
Transmodernism is "better terms than "postmodernism". It is not about modernity; it is about every system that has developed its mode of expression to the extent that it surpasses itself and its own logic. This is what I am trying to analyze." "There is no longer any ontologically secret substance. I perceive this to be nihilism rather than postmodernism. To me, nihilism is a good thing – I am a nihilist, not a postmodernist." "Paul Virilio uses the term 'transpolitical'."