Jean Baudrillard has also been described as a critical theorist to the extent that he was an unconventional and critical sociologist ; this appropriation is similarly casual, holding little or no relation to the Frankfurt School.

; Jean Baudrillard ( 1929 – 2007 ),

Baudrillard proposes the notion that, in such a state, where subjects are detached from the outcomes of events ( political, literary, artistic, personal, or otherwise ), events no longer hold any particular sway on the subject nor have any identifiable context ; they therefore have the effect of producing widespread indifference, detachment, and passivity in industrialized populations.

Although green anarchism develops themes present in the political action of the Luddites and the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, when primitivism emerged it was influenced more directly by the works of theorists such as the Frankfurt School Marxists Theodor Adorno and Herbert Marcuse ; anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee ; and others such as Lewis Mumford, Jean Baudrillard and Gary Snyder.

Often understood simply as a cultural style ' after-Modernism ' marked by intertextuality, pastiche and irony, sociological analyses of postmodernity have presented a distinct era relating to ( 1 ) the dissolution of metanarratives ( particularly in the work of Lyotard ), and ( 2 ) commodity fetishism and the ' mirroring ' of identity with consumption in late capitalist society ( Debord ; Baudrillard ; Jameson ).

The simulacra that Baudrillard refers to are the significations and symbolism of culture and media that construct perceived reality, the acquired understanding by which our lives and shared existence is and are rendered legible ; Baudrillard believed that society has become so saturated with these simulacra and our lives so saturated with the constructs of society that all meaning was being rendered meaningless by being infinitely mutable.

His influences include Antonio Gramsci, Ernst Jünger, Jean Baudrillard, Georges Dumézil, José Ortega y Gasset, Vilfredo Pareto, Guy Debord, Arnold Gehlen, Stéphane Lupasco, Helmut Schelsky, Konrad Lorenz, the German Conservative Revolutionary movement, and the Non-conformists of the 1930s.

* Passwords, a 2000 book by French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, published in French as Mots de passe

Poole writes book reviews and literary and cultural essays for numerous publications, including a long obituary of Jean Baudrillard for the Guardian ,, and a critique of the work of Alain de Botton.

Baudrillard himself, since 1984, was fairly consistent in his view that contemporary art, and postmodern art in particular, was inferior to the modernist art of the post World War II period, while Jean-François Lyotard praised Contemporary painting and remarked on its evolution from Modern art.

* Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

* The Baudrillard Dictionary edited by Richard G Smith

The paper had been taken over by the Eat the Rich Gang, a group that had successfully published several pamphlets and were particularly influenced by Fredy Perlman, Jacques Camatte, Jean Baudrillard, Council communism, and Left Communism, as well as the Situationists.

The seminal work in this respect is Jean Baudrillard's ( b. 1929 ) L ' échange symbolique et la mort ( 1976 ), in which Baudrillard claims that in the course of the 20th century reality has been superseded by " simulacra ", by representations of the original which — in a world where technology has developed the means to replicate each and everything, including works of art ( cf.

* The title is also used by the College of ' Pataphysics as Transcendent Satrap for certain of its members, among which were counted such peoples as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Baudrillard and the Marx brothers.

* Pataphysics by Jean Baudrillard ( translated by Drew Burk )

Supporting interpretations and explanations of contemporary conspicuous consumption are proffered in Consumer Culture ( 1996 ), by C. Lury, Consumer Culture and Modernity ( 1997 ), by D. Slater, Symbolic Exchange and Death ( 1998 ), by Jean Baudrillard, and Spent: Sex, Evolution, and the Secrets of Consumerism ( 2009 ), by Geoffrey Miller.

Some authors, such as Lyotard and Baudrillard, believe that modernity ended in the late 20th century and thus have defined a period subsequent to modernity, namely postmodernity, while others, such as Bauman and Giddens, would extend modernity to cover the developments denoted by postmodernity.

The development of electronic media blurs the line between map and territory by allowing for the simulation of ideas as encoded in electronic signals, as Baudrillard argues in Simulacra and Simulation ( 1994, p. 1 ):

The idea of pseudo-events closely mirrors work later done by Jean Baudrillard and Guy Debord.

The book includes long extracts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, Bruno Latour, and Jean Baudrillard who are considered by some to be leading academics of Continental philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis or social sciences.

Likewise, Jean Baudrillard claimed postmodernity was defined by a shift into hyperreality in which simulations have replaced the real.

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, a book by Jean Baudrillard, is a collection of three short essays published in the French newspaper Libération and British paper The Guardian between January and March 1991.

This idea, which has been compared to Baudrillard ’ s simulacrum, Mazzoni calls the “ idol ” – a concept constructed by human artifice to which poetic imitations are compared in order to determine their believability.

Simulacra and Simulation () is a philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard seeking to interrogate the relationship among reality, symbols, and society.

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Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

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If a Banach algebra has unit 1, then 1 cannot be a commutator ; i. e., for any x, y ∈ A.

For given nonzero integers a and b there is a nonzero integer of minimal absolute value among all those of the form ax + by with x and y integers ; one can assume d > 0 by changing the signs of both s and t if necessary.

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In 3 dimensions, a differential 0-form is simply a function f ( x, y, z ); a differential 1-form is the following expression: a differential 2-form is the formal sum: and a differential 3-form is defined by a single term: ( Here the a-coefficients are real functions ; the " wedge products ", e. g. can be interpreted as some kind of oriented area elements,, etc.

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Furthermore, in the Enchiridion Augustine attempts to refute skepticism by stating, " y not positively affirming that they are alive, the skeptics ward off the appearance of error in themselves, yet they do make errors simply by showing themselves alive ; one cannot err who is not alive.

:* Any total order on X has exactly one equivalence class, X itself, because x ~ y for all x and y ;

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Let now x ' and y ' be tuples of previously unused variables of the same length as x and y respectively, and let Q be a previously unused relation symbol which takes as many arguments as the sum of lengths of x and y ; we consider the formula