BAUDRILLARD, Jean, sociologist and post-modernist. Professor of
Sociology at the University of Paris. Associated with the radical Socialism or Barbarism
group and author of Le system des objets (1968), La societe de consommation
(1970), For a critique of the political economy of the sign (1972), Mirror of
Production (1973), Simulacra and simulations (1981), Fatal Strategies (1983),
In the shadow of the silent majorities
Post-structuralists and postmodernists