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...brainy postmodernist whose 50 books had titles like Forget Foucault and Simulacra and Simulation, French philosopher Jean Baudrillard attracted a lot of attention. A fierce critic of consumerism, he touted the notion of "hyperreality"--the unreal experiencing of events not through one's senses but through the media. His theories drew a cultlike fan base, which included the creators of The Matrix films, but he was best known for sparking furors with his provocative, if not entirely serious, commentary--most famously his 1991 remark that the much covered first Gulf War "did not take place...
Allen returned to New York less enchanted with academic life than he had been before. But downtown reading groups on Marx and Baudrillard reminded him of his cerebral bent. “I thought, if I’m naturally gravitating to these reading groups, I might as well go to grad school in philosophy...
Reid's inclusion of such a diverse range of essays displays a healthy respect for the size and variety of his subject. In his introduction to the collection, Reid attempts to convey a sense of the city's vastness. He quotes Jean Baudrillard, who wrote that "There is nothing to match flying over L.A. by night." Reid describes the awesome vision offered to a plane passenger approaching the city: the glowing web of streets displays an almost terrifying "limitless urban power and sweep...measureless sprawl...
...Frenchman named Jean Baudrillard recently wrote a book called The Transparency of Evil. We live, says Baudrillard, in a postorgiastic age, in which all liberations have been accomplished, all barriers torn down, all limits abolished. Baudrillard makes the (very French) case that evil, far from being undesirable, is necessary -- essential to maintaining the vitality of civilization. That suggests a refinement of an old argument favored by Romantics and 19th century anarchists like Bakunin, who said, "The urge for destruction is also a creative urge." It is not an argument I would try out on Elie Wiesel or on the mother...
This premature event looks like a real retrospective but is not one. It covers the past seven years of Salle's work and is -- to pinch a term from Jean Baudrillard, the French semiotician whose phrases are parroted everywhere in the art world today and recur like pious ejaculations in the exhibition catalog -- a "simulacrum." In days of yore, the aim of a museum retrospective used to be clear. It was to sum up a distinguished career, presenting the evidence of a long life's work. For a major museum to give a 34-year-old artist a retrospective would...
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