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

(in French unless noted)

• Le Système des objets, Paris: Gallimard, 1968.
  • 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, 1979. (in English)

• 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)
• America, 1986. (in English)
• 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)

• 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.
• Richard J. Lane, Jean Baudrillard, London & New York: Routledge, 2000.
• William Pawlett, Jean Baudrillard. Against Banality, London & New York: Routledge, 2007.

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 University Press, 2001.

Links

• Baudrillard at Wikipedia