Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard.
Born	July 27, 1929(1929-07-27) Reims, France
Died	March 16, 2007(2007-03-16) (aged 77) Paris, France

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is connected with postmodernism and post-structuralism.

Photography

Baudrillard was photographing from 1981 when he was given his first camera in Japan. His photographs were exhibited at the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris in 1999-2000. His contributions to photography are essays in 4 books: Les Allemands, photographies de René Burri, texte de Jean Baudrillard, Paris: éditions Delpire, 1963; Richard Avedon: Under den Linden, Port folio in Égoïste, texte de Jean Baudrillard, Paris, 1991; Nous traversons la violence du monde, Tendance Floue, avec une présentation de Jean Baudrillard, Montreuil-sous-bois, Paris: Tendance Floue, 1999; Sommes-nous, recension de 15 ans de photographies du groupe Tendance Floue, avec un texte de Jean Baudrillard, Prix Publication ICP Infinity award 2007; éd. Naïve Livre et Jean Di Sciullo, Paris, 2006.

Works

• Le Système des objets, Paris: Gallimard, 1968; 1990.
  • The System of Objects, trans. James Benedict, London: Verso, 1996. (in English)

• La Société de consommation, Paris: Denoël, 1970.
• The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures, 1970. (in English)

• Pour une critique de l'économie politique du signe, Paris: Gallimard, 1972; 1976.
  • For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, 1972.

• Le Miroir de la production, Casterman, 1973; reprint, Paris: Galilée, 1985.
  • The Mirror of Production, 1973. (in English)

• L'Échange symbolique et la mort, Paris: Gallimard, 1976.
  • Symbolic Exchange and Death, 1976. (in English)

• Oublier Foucault, Paris: Galilée, 1977.
  • Forget Foucault, trans. Nicole Dufresne, Semiotexte, 1977; 2007. (in English)
  • Olvidar a Foucault, trans. José Vázquez, Valencia: Pre-Textos, 1978; 1986; 2nd ed., 1994; 1999; 3rd ed., 2001. (in Spanish)
  • Dimenticare Foucault, Pgreco, 2014. [1] (in Italian)

• L'Effet Beaubourg, Paris: Galilée, 1977.

• À l'ombre des majorités silencieuses, Denoël, 1978.

• L'Ange de stuc, Paris: Galilée, 1978.

• Le PC ou les paradis artificiels du politique, Cahiers d'Utopie, 1978.

• De la séduction, Paris: Galilée, 1979.
  • Seduction, trans. Brian Singer, 1991. (in English)
  • De la seduction, trans. Elena Benarroch, 1981. (in Spanish)
  • O svadeni, trans. Alena Dvořáčková, 1996. (in Czech)
  • Seduction, trans. Janusz Margański, 2005. (in Polish)

• Simulacres et simulation, Paris: Galilée, 1981.
  • Simulacra and Simulation, 1981. (in English)

• In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, 1982. (in English)

• Les Stratégies fatales, Paris: Grasset, 1983.
  • Fatal Strategies, 1983. (in English)
• Simulations, 1983. (in English)

• Amérique, Paris: Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, 1986.
  • America, 1986. (in English)
  • Amerika, trans. Mila Baltic, Beograd Buddy Books and Kontekst, 1993. (in Serbian)

• Cool Memories, 1987. (in English)
• The Ecstasy of Communication, 1987. (in English)
• The Transparency of Evil, 1990. (in English)
• The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, 1991. (in English)
• The Illusion of the End, 1992. (in English)
• Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews, ed. Mike Gane, 1993. (in English)
• The Perfect Crime, 1995. (in English)
• Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit, 1998. (in English)
• Impossible Exchange, 1999. (in English)

• Mots de passe, Pauvert, Paris: Fayard, 2000.
  • Passwords, 2000. (in English)
  • Parole chiave, trans. Stefania De Amicis, Roma: Armando Editore, 2013 [2]. (in Italian)

• Ecran Total, Paris: Galilée, 2000.
  • Screened Out, trans. Chris Turner, London & New York: Verso, 2002. (in English)
  • Contraseñas, trans. Joaquín Jordá. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2002.

• with Jean Nouvel, Les objets singuliers: Architecture et philosophie, Paris: Editions Calmann-Levy, 2000.
  • The Singular Objects of Architecture, trans. Robert Bononno, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. (in English)

• The Vital Illusion, 2000.
• The Uncollected Baudrillard, ed. Gary Genosko, 2001.
• Au royaume des aveugles, 2002.

• L'esprit du terrorisme, Paris: Galilée, 2002.
  • The Spirit of Terrorism And Requiem for the Twin Towers, trans. Chris Turner, London & New York: Verso, 2003. (in English)

• D'un Fragment L'autre. Conversations avec François L'Yvonnet, Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 2001.
  • Fragments, interviews with François L'Yvonnet, trans. Chris Turner, London & New York: Routledge, 2004. (in English)

• The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact, 2005.
• The Conspiracy of Art, 2005.
• with Enrique Valiente Noailles, Les exilés du dialogue, 2005.
• Utopia Deferred: Writings for Utopie, 1967–1978, 2006.
• Pataphysics, 2007.
• Radical Alterity, 2008.

• Pourquoi tout n’a-t-il pas déjà disparu ?, Editions de L’Herne, 2007.
  • Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?, trans. Chris Turner, Seagull, 2009.

• Carnival and Cannibal, or the Play of Global Antagonisms, 2010.
• The Agony of Power, 2010.

Literature

• Bryan Turner, Forget Baudrillard, 1993.
• Chris Horrocks and Zoran Jevtic, Baudridard for Beginners, 1996; reprint as Introducing Baudrillard, Duxford, Cambridge: Icon Books and Totem Books, 1999; 2000, 2001, 2003.
• Douglas Kellner, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, 1990.
• Richard J. Lane, Jean Baudrillard, London & New York: Routledge, 2000.
• Paul Hegarty, Jean Baudrillard: Live Theory, London & New York: Continuum, 2004.
• William Pawlett, Jean Baudrillard. Against Banality, London & New York: Routledge, 2007.
• James Walters, Baudrillard and Theology, London & New York: Continuum, 2012.

Bibliography

• in French
• Bibliographie at Editions Galilee (in French)
• in English

Collected works

• Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings, edited by Mark Poster, trans. Jacques Mourrain and others, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1989; 2001.

Links

• Baudrillard at Wikipedia