Category: Jean Baudrillard
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Baudrillard and Trump: Simulation and Object-Orientation, Not True and False by Alan N. Shapiro
I feel very privileged that, in Volume Six, Number One (January 2009) of the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (IJBS), my essay on Baudrillard’s America appears in tandem with Gerry Coulter’s essay on America. Gerry’s text is extremely helpful in thinking about the contemporary phenomenon of Donald John Trump.
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Discover America und die Idee der Baudrillard-Company, von Alan N. Shapiro
Baudrillards Amerika ist – um es einmal vorsichtig auszudrücken – nicht wirklich gut angekommen. Die verärgerte Rezeption durch eine Fülle von Kritikern hat erheblich zur negativen Seite von Baudrillards Doppel-Reputation als führender Philosoph einerseits und angeblich unseriöser Lieferant rhetorischer Nichtigkeiten andererseits beigetragen.
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Reality and Simulation in “The Prisoner,” by Caroline Fuchs
Number 6 is being held hostage in “The Village” for only one reason: to answer the question why did he resign. But Number 6 did not resign for personal gain (to sell the valuable information he has) but for personal reasons, rebels against his prison and refuses to cooperate.
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On the trail of Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Žižek in the American Desert
OBJECTS IN THIS MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR. We understand Baudrillard to be a unique thinker – perhaps one of the half-dozen greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. America is a milestone work of social commentary about the USA by a French author, in the same tradition as Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.
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Baudrillard, Globalization and Terrorism, by Douglas Kellner
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and subsequent Terror War, Jean Baudrillard has written a series of reflections on the contemporary moment that have evoked the excitement and controversy of his earlier work. For many years, Baudrillard had complained that the contemporary era has been one of “weak events.”
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Baudrillard und Trek-nologie, von Alan N. Shapiro
Beginnen wir mit dem Ende der sechziger Jahre in New York, dem Ort meiner Kindheit. Als guter Jude sollte ich eine jüdische Erziehung bekommen. Stattdessen liebte ich Star Trek. Alles, was ich weiß, habe ich von Star Trek gelernt. Unter anderem auch, die Naturwissenschaften zu lieben. Das machte mich zu einem guten Amerikaner.