Baudrillard, Jean
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BAUDRILLARD, JEAN 1929 2007, French social theorist and cultural critic. Trained as a sociologist, he taught at the Univ. of...art, sexuality, and spheres of life, causing them to intermingle and interrelate in a confused, uncontrolled manner. Baudrillard subsequently developed a theory of media-saturated, late-capitalist technological consumer societies that saw them as...