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Understanding Baudrillard by Hiram Tinoco is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and philosopher known for his analyses of mediation and technological communication. He argued that meaning is constructed through systems of signs and that reality "dies out" in a hyperreal simulated version as societies attempt to understand the world. Baudrillard analyzed how objects obtain value through functional, economic, symbolic, and sign values. He is known for his concepts of simulacra and hyperreality, arguing that in modern society there is no objective
- Author
- Hiram Tinoco
- Language
- EN