Jean Baudrillard

COVID-19 and Our Purgatory of Consumerism
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COVID-19 and Our Purgatory of Consumerism

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 / 14 January 2021

Our pandemic quarantine has become the sublime enactment of Baudrillard's theory of consumption – that modern consumption, with its myth of individual liberty and choice, is in fact 'de-socialising'.

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The German Issue: Still Straddling the Berlin Wall

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Collection Obsession: William Davies King’s “Collections of Nothing”

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Radical Alterity by Jean Baudrillard

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The Death of Jean Baudrillard Did Not Take Place

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Passwords by Jean Baudrillard

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 / 21 January 2004
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The Singular Objects of Architecture by Jean Baudrillard and Jean Nouvel

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 / 13 August 2003