Conspiracy Thinking: Towards an Ambiguous Theory of Photography by Dr. Ted Hiebert Exercise: Take a picture of someone wearing a tinfoil hat. Framing statement: In his 1927 story “The Tissue-Culture…

The supreme illusion of Real Time as the limit of all accelerations by Dr. Nello Barile Give up yourself unto the moment, the time is now. Give up yourself unto…

Baudrillard’s Spirit of Terrorism: A Generation Z Perspective by James Wolf Masson At the very beginning of his controversial essay first published in Le Monde on November 3, 2001, L’esprit…

One More Spiral in the Simulacrum: Jean Baudrillard’s Games with Reality by Dr. Elena Violaris I. Introduction While Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra famously argues that it is no longer possible to…

Baudrillard and the Forgetting of Death as a Challenge by Dr. Ahmet Dağ Death, a central subject in metaphysics, has become a concept that modern humans strive to exclude from…

Baudrillard’s “The Violence of the Global” Revisited: Comments and New Perspectives by Dr. François Debrix In 2002, one year after the 9/11 attacks, Jean Baudrillard wrote and published the essay “The…

The Violence of the Global [1] by Dr. Jean Baudrillard (Translated by Dr. François Debrix) Today’s terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It…

Implosion Today by Dr. Gary Genosko But nothing will halt the implosive process, and the only remaining alternative is between a violent and catastrophic implosion, and a smooth implosion, an…

The Fragmented Era is a Dead End for Humanity Dr. Oleg Maltsev Baudrillard’s “Fragments” vividly portrays the contemporary world as fragmented, encapsulating a distinctive era. This subject marks a conclusive…

Theory Fictions: Baudrillard in the Contemporary Moment by Dr. Douglas Kellner In some of his later writings, Jean Baudrillard develops what he terms “theory fiction,” or what he also calls…