Articles tagged "jean baudrillard"

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Collection Obsession: William Davies King’s “Collections of Nothing”

by David Banash

[15.Aug.08] :. Wrestling with objects, saving and ordering them, is a way to cope with flux, doubt, and the twin gods of sex and death. Banash deconstructs the human urge to collect all manner of stuff.

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Radical Alterity by Jean Baudrillard

by Erik Hinton

[24.Jul.08] :. Philosophy has often foregone its search for truth in favor of trumpeting a perceived tectonic ontological crisis: “Hark! The Internet, reality TV, Disney World, America! The sky is falling!”

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The Death of Jean Baudrillard Did Not Take Place

by G. Christopher Williams

[30.Mar.07] :. The controversial French philosopher's legacy has been tarnished by reductionist readings of his work, generated precisely by the tendencies of the mass media he sought to illuminate.

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Passwords by Jean Baudrillard

by Rahul Gairola

[21.Jan.04] :. The concepts at the heart of Baudrillard's book invoke, reflect, subvert, and play with one another, sometimes compelling the careful reader to read the book backwards so that she or he might then begin reading forwards again.

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The Singular Objects of Architecture by Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel

by Kim Diorio

[13.Aug.03] :. The loose focus of Nouvel and Baudrillard's discussion is the 'singular object': an irreducible, irreplaceable, transcendent cultural artifact.

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