Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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)
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