March 23, 2007
The Death of Jean Baudrillard Did Happen
The death of the 77-year-old French thinker Jean Baudrillard — best known for the flamboyant title of his 1991 screed, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place, and the salute to his doubts about reality in The Matrix (1999) — did take place on March 6. No one spent an instant wondering if it might be one of the eccentric thinker's "simulacra" shimmering in a world of faded authenticity. Newspapers, no fans of mere appearance, provided blunt takes on the
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