Mar 7, 2007
The End of the End of History
Jean Baudrillard, postmodern theorist of the simulacrum and major inspiration for The Matrix, died yesterday. As of this morning, the record for him in the Library of Congress online catalog indicates that he lived from 1929 to 2007. Considering you still occasionally come across entries for authors born during the Civil War whose death dates aren't indicated, this is pretty amazing.
I've put up something on Baudrillard here, or rather recycled it from an earlier publication. Such recycling seems particularly appropriate in this case. Most of whatever proved interesting or stimulating in Baudrillard consisted of ideas he had photocopied from the Situationists, especially Guy Debord's analysis of the society of the spectacle.
I've put up something on Baudrillard here, or rather recycled it from an earlier publication. Such recycling seems particularly appropriate in this case. Most of whatever proved interesting or stimulating in Baudrillard consisted of ideas he had photocopied from the Situationists, especially Guy Debord's analysis of the society of the spectacle.