Ciao Baudrillard, ciao Virtuality
Post-structuralism has lost one of his most influential thinkers: Jean Baudrillard, mind-father of simulacra and simulation died this Tuesday, March 6th.
With his comments on the 1991 Gulf War he gained broad public attention as a political commtator: He claimed the war to be a ‘virtual war’, that ‘did not take place’ due to the mediatic representation and its lack of consequences.
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