(1929 - 2007)
Born in Reims, France, Jean Baudrillard was a sociologist and theorist who taught at the University of Paris X at Nanterre and the University of Paris at Dauphine. His books include The System of Objects, The Consumer Society, and Simulacra and Simulation.
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the grand climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
—Jean Baudrillard, 1987Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
—Jean Baudrillard, c. 1987
