{"id":605,"date":"2007-03-09T20:35:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T10:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2007-03-09T20:35:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T10:35:17","slug":"vale-jean-baudrillard-20-june-1929-6-march-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Vale Jean Baudrillard 20 June 1929 &#8211; 6 March 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French postmodern philosopher <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jean Baudrillard\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Baudrillard\">Jean Baudrillard<\/a> died on my birthday, aged 77. He leaves us with a question he himself posed in 2004 in a paper he presented at the European Graduate School in 2004:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; When the referent no longer exists, can we still speak of an image?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Where Roland Barthes spoke of language as a mediation of the real, Baudrillard realised that the mediation is what we have access to, not the thing itself &#8211; and irrespective of whether or not the thing itself was actual. The world is richer for his having been, and poorer for his departure.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jean Baudrillard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g-_ITSVzkrk\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jean Baudrillard\" id=\"image604\" src=\"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/Baudrillard.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJean Baudrillard at the European Graduate School, 2004<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I still think his short book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0936756020?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lostbirocom-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0936756020\">Simulations <\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=lostbirocom-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0936756020\" \/> was his best work.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French postmodern philosopher Jean Baudrillard died on my birthday, aged 77. He leaves us with a question he himself posed in 2004 in a paper he presented at the European Graduate School in 2004: &#8230; When the referent no longer exists, can we still speak of an image? Where Roland Barthes spoke of language as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-theory","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}