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 (27 July 1929 – 6 March 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. In 1999–2000, his photographs were exhibited at the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris.

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)
• Forget Foucault (1977)
• 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 (Edited by Mike Gane) (1993)
• The Perfect Crime (1995)
• Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit (1998)
• Impossible Exchange (book)|Impossible Exchange (1999)
• Passwords (2000)
• The Singular Objects of Architecture (2000)
• The Vital Illusion (2000)
• 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)
• Les exilés du dialogue, Jean Baudrillard and Enrique Valiente Noailles (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)

Books about Baudrillard

• Bryan Turner, Forget Baudrillard, 1993
• Chris Horrocks, Introducing Baudrillard, 1997
• Douglas Kellner, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond (Key Contemporary Thinkers), 1990
• Gary Genosko, The Uncollected Baudrillard, 2001

External links

• Baudrillard on Wikipedia