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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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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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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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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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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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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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