Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Jean Baudrillard
Born: July 27, 1929
Died: March 6, 2007 (aged 77)
Bio: Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.
Known for:
- Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
- The system of objects (1996)
- The spirit of terrorism (2002)
- Symbolic exchange and death (1993)
- The transparency of evil (1990)
Jean Baudrillard Quotes