THE PROPHET BAUDRILLARD
by Charlie Finch



The philosopher Jean Baudrillard has been dead for almost four years and his thought has been just about completely forgotten in advanced culture. It is hard to believe that Baudrillard was the centerpiece of a famous art world dinner at Columbia University in the late 1980s, a time when his debunking of "reality" eclipsed even Foucault and Lacan in the minds of artists.

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