Baudrillard indeed, drawing on his Situationist roots, sought to position himself as ingenu in everyday life: ' I play the role of the Danube peasant: someone who knows nothing but suspects something is wrong ... I like being in the position of the primitive ... playing naïve '.

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.

Jacques Derrida argued that access to meaning and the ' real ' was always deferred, and sought to demonstrate via recourse to the linguistic realm that " There is nothing outside the text "; at the same time, Jean Baudrillard theorised that signs and symbols or simulacra mask reality ( and eventually the absence of reality itself ), particularly in the consumer world.

Additional inspiration was drawn from Jean Baudrillard, Edvard Munch's 1894 painting " Puberty ", and Roland Barthes " Death of the Author ".

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.

While Baudrillard infamously argued that the Gulf War did not take place, Virilio argued that it was a ' world war in miniature '.

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

Baudrillard argues that the style of warfare used in the Gulf War was so far removed from previous standards of warfare that it existed more as images on RADAR and TV screens than as actual hand-to-hand combat, that most of the decisions in the war were based on perceived intelligence coming from maps, images, and news, than from actual seen-with-the-eye intelligence.

The US-led coalition was fighting a virtual war while the Iraqis tried to fight a traditional one-the two could not entirely meet ( Baudrillard 1995, 69 ).

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.

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.

He notes that Applewhite's condemnations of contemporary culture bear similarities to those of Jean Baudrillard at times, particularly their shared nihilist views.

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.

Jean Baudrillard has had a significant influence on postmodern-inspired art and has emphasised the possibilities of new forms of creativity.

Postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard wrote briefly of nihilism from the postmodern viewpoint in Simulacra and Simulation.

The most influential early postmodern philosophers were Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jacques Derrida.

French postmodern philosophy | postmodern philosopher Jean Baudrillard, who influenced the periodical in its late 1970s anarchist phase.

Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, and Roland Barthes were influential in 1970s in developing postmodern theory.

In an interview at the Museum of Modern Art, however, Morris denies being a postmodern at all, joking that “ one of the nice things about Cambridge, Massachusetts is that ' Baudrillard ' isn't in the phone book ”.

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.

Within the ( post -) structuralist line ( though mostly not taking that label ) are thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Claude Lefort, and Jean Baudrillard.

* Baudrillard and Hyperreality ; Simulacro y régimen de mortandad en el Sistema de los objetos ( Disney World and Hyperreality ) by Adolfo Vasquez Rocca

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.

* Baudrillard, Jean ( 1995 ) The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Map – territory relation ), e. g. the first Gulf War ( which Baudrillard later used as an object demonstration ): the image of war preceded real war.

Some authors, such as Lyotard and Baudrillard, believe that modernity ended in the mid or late 20th century and thus have defined a period subsequent to modernity, namely Postmodernity ( 1930s / 1950s / 1990s – present ).

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.

Philosophers commonly referred to as Post-structuralists include Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze ( all of whom began their careers within a Structuralist framework ), Jacques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-François Lyotard, Julia Kristeva, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and, sometimes, the American cultural theorists, critics and intellectuals they influenced ( e. g. Judith Butler, Jonathan Crary, John Fiske, Rosalind Krauss, Hayden White ).

This usage is ascribed to the philosophers Jean-François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard.

His work has been compared to that of Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Ellul, and others, although many of these connections are problematic.

The Passagen Verlag, the name Passagen being an allusion to Walter Benjamin's most important text Passagenwerk, publishes besides Derrida authors such as Jean-François Lyotard, Gianni Vattimo, Jean Baudrillard, Paul Feyerabend, Peter Eisenman, Jacques Lacan, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Sarah Kofman, Gerhard Anna Concic-Kaucic, Slavoj Žižek, Emmanuel Levinas, Clifford Geertz, Ginka Steinwachs, Dennis Cooper, Wolfgang Schirmacher, etc.

The most prominent proponents of this position are Lyotard and Baudrillard.

That would include Baudrillard, Lyotard, Foucault, etc.

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 ).

Saussure's insistence on the arbitrariness of the sign has also influenced later philosophers and theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, and Jean Baudrillard.

The late French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard, makes mention of the film as an example of a new genre of " retro cinema " in his essay on history in the now foundational text, Simulacra and Simulation ( 1981 ):

* ( About the Collège, its members ( Bataille, Leiris, and Walter Benjamin ), sociological impact ( Marcel Mauss, Robert Hertz, Emile Durkheim ) and its influence on other philosophers ( Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, etc.

The French writer Jean Baudrillard wrote an essay ( 1988 ) that described this project in terms of a reciprocal loss of will on the part of both pursued and pursuer.

Whilst Pierre Bourdieu gained significant critical acclaim for his continued work on cultural capital, certain French sociologists, particularly Jean Baudrillard and Michel Maffesoli, were criticised for perceived obfuscation and relativism.

* 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.

In attempting to define noise music and its value, Paul Hegarty ( 2007 ) cites the work of noted cultural critics Jean Baudrillard, Georges Bataille and Theodor Adorno and through their work traces the history of " noise ".