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Reevaluation of Jean Baudrillard: The Economy of the Future

Reevaluation of Jean Baudrillard: The Economy of the Futureby Dr. Alan N. Shapiro Introduction This article is a part of my book “Decoding Digital Culture with Science Fiction Hyper-Modernism, Hyperreality,…

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On the Entanglement of Contemporary Future Imaginaries: Conceptualizing the Matrix and the Brain-Machine Interface from Baudrillard and Gibson to Musk

On the Entanglement of Contemporary Future Imaginaries: Conceptualizing the Matrix and the Brain-Machine Interface from Baudrillard and Gibson to Muskby Dr. Jiré Emine Gözen (Tweet of Elon Musk on the…

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Signed into the world. Baudrillard and Heidegger in Conversation

Signed into the world. Baudrillard and Heidegger in Conversationby Dr. Shing-Shang LinProfessor in the Department of Philosophy, Tunghai University Abstract Being-in-the-world, a central concept in early Heidegger’s philosophy, begins with…

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Conspiracy Thinking: Towards an Ambiguous Theory of Photography

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…

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The Supreme Illusion of Real Time as the Limit of All Accelerations

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…

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Baudrillard’s Spirit of Terrorism: A Generation Z Perspective

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…

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One More Spiral in the Simulacrum: Jean Baudrillard’s Games with Reality

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…

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Baudrillard and the Forgetting of Death as a Challenge

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…

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Baudrillard’s “The Violence of the Global” Revisited: Comments and New Perspectives

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…

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The Violence of the Global by Jean Baudrillard

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…

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