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 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.

Works

• The System of Objects, 1968.
• The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures, 1970.
• For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, 1972.
• The Mirror of Production, 1973.
• Symbolic Exchange and Death, 1976.
• Oublier Foucault, Paris: Galilée, 1977.
  • Forget Foucault, trans. Nicole Dufresne, Semiotexte, 1977; 2007.
  • 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)
• Seduction, 1979.
• Simulacra and Simulation, 1981.
• In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, 1982.
• Fatal Strategies, 1983.
• Simulations, 1983.
• America, 1986.
• Cool Memories, 1987.
• The Ecstasy of Communication, 1987.
• The Transparency of Evil, 1990.
• The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, 1991.
• The Illusion of the End, 1992.
• Baudrillard Live: Selected Interviews, ed. Mike Gane, 1993.
• The Perfect Crime, 1995.
• Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit, 1998.
• Impossible Exchange, 1999.
• Passwords, 2000.
• The Singular Objects of Architecture, 2000.
• The Vital Illusion, 2000.
• The Uncollected Baudrillard, ed. Gary Genosko, 2001.
• Au royaume des aveugles, 2002.
• The Spirit of Terrorism: And Requiem for the Twin Towers, 2002.
• Fragments, interviews with François L'Yvonnet, 2003.
• 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.
• Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?, 2009.
• Carnival and Cannibal, or the Play of Global Antagonisms, 2010.
• The Agony of Power, 2010.

Literature

• Bryan Turner, Forget Baudrillard, 1993.
• Chris Horrocks, Introducing Baudrillard, 1997.
• Douglas Kellner, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, 1990.
• William Pawlett, Jean Baudrillard. Against Banality, London & New York: Routledge, 2007.

Links

• Baudrillard at Wikipedia