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Jean Baudrillard
Two of Baudrillards essays are translated to English. These are: Simulacra and Science Fiction and Ballard's Crash.
Jean Baudrillard with Claude Thibaut: Baudrillard
In this interview, Baudrillard deals with the universe of virtuality, and the consequences of which are not so virtual.
Jean Baudrillard: A Conjuration of Imbeciles.
An essay about the French right-wing populist Jean-Marie Le Pen and his National Front-Party.
Jean Baudrillard: Plastic Surgery for the Other
Baudrillard complains about creating artificial "others" especially in the field of sexuality.
Jean Baudrillard: America - Excerpts 1
In this Essay, Baudrillard writes about his relationship to the American society. Part one of the excerpts.
Jean Baudrillard: America - Excerpts 2
In this Essay, Baudrillard writes about his relationship to the American society. Part two of the excerpts.
Jean Baudrillard: Disneyworld Company
Translation of an essay by Baudrillard criticizing the cultural force of the Walt Disney Company.
Jean Baudrillard: Dust Breeding
English translation of the essay "L'Elevage de Poussière" published in 2001. It deals with Reality-TV and the forced visibility of people through the media.
Jean Baudrillard: Global Debt and Parallel Univers
This essay deals with the public debt in the USA as well as on a global level and the impossibility to pay it back.
Jean Baudrillard: Hystericizing the Millennium.
In 1992, Baudrillard was discussing the end of the millennium. The main topic is, how people develop history in the new age.
Jean Baudrillard: In the Shadow of the Millennium
Another essay discussing the end of the last millennium and what might be beyond it.
Jean Baudrillard: No reprieve for Sarajevo
Baudrillard criticizes the war in Serbia and Bosnia and the suffering, the allied armies brought to these countries.
Jean Baudrillard: On the Murderous Capacity of Ima
Excerpt from "The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Simulacra". Deals with reality and images.
Jean Baudrillard: Pataphysics of Year 2000
This essay is about the absence of history and liberation in the new millennium.
Jean Baudrillard: Photography, or the Writing of L
Essay on photography which affirms itself as both the purest and the most artificial exposition of the image.
Jean Baudrillard: Radical Thought
Baudrillard describes thought as a work of art. But the radical prediction is always that of a non-reality of the facts.
Jean Baudrillard: Reversion of History
Discussion whether the movement of modernity is reversible or if there is a "wall of history".
Jean Baudrillard: Rise of the void towards the Per
Discussion about unreal events with which the public is being disinformed.
Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulations
One of Baudrillards most famous writings. Discusses ideological discourses and discourses of truth.
Jean Baudrillard: The Spirit of Terrorism
This essay was first published by "Le Monde" in November 2001. English translation by Dr Rachel Bloul.