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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…