- Born in 1929 in Reins, Paris
- 1966 began teaching sociology
- His books gathered a wide audience during the 1980s and 1990s - he became an intellectual celebrity, he published frequently in the English and French speaking popular press
- Simulcra and simulations
- Utopia deferred: writings from the Utopia
- The system of objects
- Symbolic Exchange
- The spirit of terrorism: and requim for the twin towers
"There is no theory of the media" - Baudrillard 'Requiem for the media' 1971
2005:
- According to the academic William Merrin Baudrillard isn't actually a postmodernist.
- Although, he borrows many ideas to describe this media saturated world, he's actually more interested in the way we connect, make meaning, experience and communicate.
- Baudrillard is first and foremost a sociologist, anthropologist and philospopher.
- He just happens to be living in an age where the media influence has significant parts of these topics.
- Baudrillard offers a radical anthropoligical critique of what he calls the semiotic and simulation - of an avant garde response to the world of simulation and our attempts to understand it.
- His ideas ideas are based on the work of the French anthropologist Emil Durkheim.
- Durkheim was concerned primarily with how societies could maintain their coherence in the modern era, where matters such as shared religious and ethnic backgrounds could no longer be assumed. . .
"The mass media are anti-mediatory and...fabricate non-communication - this is what characterizes them." -Baudrillard 'Requim for the media' 1971
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