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March 07, 2007

RIP Baudrillard

Working late and listening to the radio, I've just heard that Jean Baudrillard has died, aged 77. At a time when Baudrillard's analyses of how "Virtuality retranscribes everything in its space [and] human ends vanish into thin air in virtuality" are more significant than ever, Baudrillard's own 'end' has taken place. However, Baudrillard will - at least virtually - live on through the reverberations of his work: his own end will not be final, and will vanish into and spread ever-further through the thin air of virtuality.

Posted by jon_mendel at March 7, 2007 12:50 AM

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