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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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Posted in Postmodern theory Sociology

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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Posted in Philosophy Postmodern theory

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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Posted in Philosophy

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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Posted in Philosophy Photography Sociology

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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Rethinking Baudrillard After the Orgy and How to Get Out of a Simulation

Rethinking Baudrillard After the Orgy and How to Get Out of a Simulation A review of Maestro. Jean Baudrillard. The Last Prophet of Europe (Dr. Oleg Maltsev)  by Dr. Steve Gennaro The…

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The Screen: Product of the Hyperreality Machine

The Screen: Product of the Hyperreality Machine by Dr. Oleg Maltsev Jean Baudrillard considered different pressing phenomena and introduced many concepts to describe today’s world of hyperreality – among them…

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Baudrillard and McLuhan in the Social Media Age

Baudrillard and McLuhan in the Social Media Age by Dr. Douglas Kellner and Dr. Steve Gennaro In the social media age, our interminable digital identities are works of art, and we…

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