Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007)

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Notes

1. For an overview of the trajectory of Baudrillard's transdisciplinary work, see my “Jean Baudrillard After Modernity: Provocations On A Provocateur and Challenger,” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 3, issue 1 (January 2006), http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol3_1/kellner.htm (accessed 29 December 2007). For the first book published on Baudrillard and an overview of early stages of his work, see Douglas Kellner, Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Post-Modernism and Beyond (Cambridge, UK and Palo Alto, CA: Polity Press and Stanford University Press, 1989).

2. On this work, see my “Baudrillard, Globalization and Terrorism: Some Comments on Recent Adventures of the Image and Spectacle on the Occasion of Baudrillard's 75th Birthday,” International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 2, issue 1 (January 2005), http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol2_1/kellner.htm (accessed 29 December 2007)

3. There is, however, an excellent Internet journal edited by Gerry Coulter. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, http://www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/index.html (accessed 29 December 2007).

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Douglas Kellner

Douglas Kellner is George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA