Jean Baudrillard

Features

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

By David Banash

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. [15 August 2008]

The Death of Jean Baudrillard Did Not Take Place

By G. Christopher Williams

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. [30 March 2007]

Reviews

Radical Alterity by Jean Baudrillard

By Erik Hinton

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!” [24 July 2008]

Passwords by Jean Baudrillard

By Rahul Gairola

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. [21 January 2004]

The Singular Objects of Architecture by Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel

By Kim Diorio

The loose focus of Nouvel and Baudrillard's discussion is the 'singular object': an irreducible, irreplaceable, transcendent cultural artifact. [13 August 2003]