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Implosion Today

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…

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The Fragmented Era is a Dead End for Humanity

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…

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Theory Fictions: Baudrillard in the Contemporary Moment

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…

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Art works of “Simulacrum” series

Simulacrum by Noor Zahran Why did you title this series of artworks Simulacrum? What inspired you to create them? The title of the series is derived from the word ‘Simulacrum’…

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The metaphor of the black hole: from mass society to the contemporary dystopian imagery

The metaphor of the black hole: from mass society to the contemporary dystopian imagery By Dr. Nello Barile I met Jean Baudrillard in the late 1990s at the Palazzo delle…

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The Old House on the Hill: an American Gothic Landmark of Social Displacement and Estrangement in The Addams Family and Psycho/Bates Motel

The Old House on the Hill: an American Gothic Landmark of Social Displacement and Estrangement in The Addams Family and Psycho/Bates Motel by Prof. Frédéric Conrod  Abstract: Since its independence…

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Baudrillard as Pataphysicist: Unknowledge Production for the Pluriverse

Baudrillard as Pataphysicist: Unknowledge Production for the Pluriverse by Mark Horvath and Adam Lovasz What is Jean Baudrillard, if not the hypertrophy of theory? After the French theorist’s turn away from…

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Chambers of the past and future. The simulated worlds of Baudrillard, Cyberpunk and the Metaverse

Chambers of the past and future. The simulated worlds of Baudrillard, Cyberpunk and the Metaverse Prof. Dr. Jiré Emine Gözen The renaming of Facebook to Meta at the end of…

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Photography, Or The Writing Of Light by Jean Baudrillard

Photography, Or The Writing Of Light by Jean Baudrillard [1] Translated by Francois Debrix The miracle of photography, of its so-called objective image, is that it reveals a radically non-objective world. It…

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Beyond the Driver Barrier

Beyond the Driver Barrier by Prof. Dr. Gary Genosko Much has been written about Baudrillard as a critic, but hardly anything about his driving. Baudrillard wrote auto-critically in America (53-4)…

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