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Genshin Impact: Deciphered in Any Depth

by Alexzander Mazey ‘We lived once in a world where the realm of the imaginary was governed by the mirror, by dividing one into two, by theatre, by otherness and…

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Interview with Jean Baudrillard: from popular culture to mass culture

by Dr. Roger Célestin  Roger Célestin: Let’s begin by trying to come up with a definition. How would you define popular culture in France today and what are its most…

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What is real? Transitional Space: Baudrillard, Winnicott, Psychoanalysis

by John Farnsworth Abstract This paper takes up a psychoanalytic critique of Baudrillard’s critical theory to discuss how his formulation of the real, the object and the hyperreal can be…

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Questions for Jean Baudrillard: Continental Drift

by Deborah Solomon Deborah Solomon: As one of France’s most celebrated philosophers, can you give us any insight into the civil discontent that is pitting a generation of young people…

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Baudrillard as the Skin of the Future

by Dr. Arthur Kroker and Dr. Oleg Maltsev Oleg Maltsev: You have known Jean Baudrillard for 15 years. How would you describe Baudrillard as a person and scholar? Arthur Kroker:…

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Real Science is a Fatal Challenge

Neo-modernism versus postmodernism in reshaping the “spirit of science”… By Lucien-Samir Oulahbib (CLESID, Lyon 3, France, director of dogma.lu review and two collections in Harmattan French publisher (commentaries Philosophy and…

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Why Baudrillard, Why Now?

by Andrew McLaverty-Robinson Like Baudrillard’s own work, this is an unusual, original and potentially controversial book. Readers expecting the usual kitsch-poststructuralist truisms cloaked in verbosity will be disappointed. So will…

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From a Critique of Consumer Society to Forms of Global Psychotherapy or the Illusion of Life

by Oleg Maltsev In this paper, the author conducts a praxiological and descriptive analysis of Chapter 4, “A Critique of Consumer Society,” of the book Remembering Baudrillard by researcher Serge…

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Jean Baudrillard. Maestro. The last prophet of Europe (Chapter 1)

by Oleg Maltsev, Lucien Oulahbib Chapter 1. Introduction. Why write this book? “Greatness is not about a person himself, but his deeds” Dr. Oleg Maltsev  Jean Baudrillard. The last and…

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Jean Baudrillard and the Donald: Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism?

by Alan N. Shapiro Epistemology of True and False The kind of media theory or media analysis which has been prevalent on the American political left for the past several…

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