International academic journal "Baudrillard Now"
◾️ Oleg Maltsev (Ukraine) (Editor)
◾️ Athina Karatzogianni (Great Britain)
◾️ Bernardo Attias (USA)
◾️ Brett Nicholls (New Zealand)
◾️ Douglas Kellner (USA)
◾️ Lucien Oulahbib (France)
◾️ Ryan Bishop (Great Britain)
◾️ Serge Bramly (France)
◾️ Steven Best (USA)
Author, criminologist, psychologist. Founder and director of Expeditionary Corps, The Memory Institute. Chairman of Odessa Photographic Scientific Society.
Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. Her work investigates the use of ICT by dissidents, social movements and insurgency groups.
Email: athina.k@gmail.com
Professor at CSUN, accomplished DJ, poet, and artist, he brings his creative energy and interests into his scholarship and pedagogy. The emphasis of much of his work is on the political economy of mass mediated events.
Email: bernardo.attias@csun.edu
Author, lecturer, cultural critic. He is head of Media, Film and Communication at the University of Otago, New Zealand
Email: brett.nicholls@otago.ac.nz
Author, critical theorist. Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Education, Gender Studies, and Germanic Languages at UCLA. Kellner is an author of the Baudrillard page in Stanford Online Encyclopedia.
Email: kellner@ucla.edu
Author, lecturer, sociologist, political scientist. Currently, he lectures at Albert le Grand Institute. He spent many years working together with Jean Baudrillard.
Email: lucien.oulahbib@free.fr
Author, Editor, Professor at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK. Director of Research and Doctoral Research within Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton.
Email: r.bishop@soton.ac.uk
Novelist, ethnologist, screenwriter, art critic, and historian of photography. Photography “mentor” of Baudrillard and organizer of his first photo exhibition.
Email: sbramly@gmail.com
Professor at the University of Texas, El Paso. Author, speaker, public intellectual. He is co-author (with Douglas Kellner) of postmodern studies trilogy.
Email: best@utep.edu
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French thinker, Jean Baudrillard, is a hard to describe dazzling figure. Some “classify” him as a sociologist, cultural theorist, philosopher, scientist, photographer, prophet or even “God.” Conversely, some consider him to be a “philosopher clown”, or not completely sane, “a political idiot … ignorant and cynical” whose writings are too obscure; so many men, so many minds. Yet, don’t we see this hardwired inescapable repetition in the history of humanity, as the world’s greatest minds have always been controversial for the masses? It’s a rhetorical question.
Jean Baudrillard authored more than 60 books that stirred and shook the world, and still do today, by revealing the nature of modern-day “existence”, which is immersed and overwhelmed by peoples’ delusion, misconceptions, and total delirium. His writings cover practically every significant issue, from reality, consumerism, political intricacies, sexuality and history, to the future’s long term prognosis and human beings as such. Baudrillard was a professor at the Paris X Nanterre University and later at the European Graduate School.
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Baudrillard and McLuhan in the Social Media Age
Douglas Kellner and Steve Gennaro
In the social media age, our interminable digital identities are works of art, and we are artists. In equal parts performance, photography, film, composition, and graphic design, we write ourselves into stories to depict a virtual existence. At the same time, the “tethered togetherness” (Schroeder, 2018) of the social media age illustrates how digital selves are not a collection of monologues but communal art.
Jean Baudrillard was born in the cathedral town of Reims, France in 1929. He told interviewers that his grandparents were peasants and his parents became civil servants (Gane 1993: 19). Baudrillard also claims that he was the first member of his family to pursue an advanced education and that this led to a rupture with his parents and cultural milieu.
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“In the trompe l’oeil, whether a mirror or painting, we are bewitched by the spell of the missing dimension. It is the latter that establishes the space of seduction and becomes a source of vertigo.”
Seduction, Jean Baudrillard
Associated with postmodern and postructuralist theory, Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) is difficult to situate in relation to traditional and contemporary philosophy. His work combines philosophy, social theory, and an idiosyncratic cultural metaphysics that reflects on key events and phenomena of the epoch.
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