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Jean Baudrillard

COVID-19 and Our Purgatory of Consumerism
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COVID-19 and Our Purgatory of Consumerism

By
Siraj Izhar
/ 14 January 2021

Our pandemic quarantine has become the sublime enactment of Baudrillard's theory of consumption – that modern consumption, with its myth of individual liberty and choice, is in fact 'de-socialising'.

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The German Issue: Still Straddling the Berlin Wall

By
Alan Ashton-Smith
/ 7 March 2010
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Collection Obsession: William Davies King’s “Collections of Nothing”

By
David Banash
/ 14 August 2008
Reviews/Books

Jean Baudrillard’s ‘Radical Alterity’ Is Not So Radical

By
Erik Hinton
/ 23 July 2008
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The Death of Jean Baudrillard Did Not Take Place

By
G. Christopher Williams
/ 29 March 2007
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Passwords by Jean Baudrillard

By
Rahul Gairola
/ 21 January 2004
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The Singular Objects of Architecture by Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel

By
Kim Diorio
/ 13 August 2003

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