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Wednesday, March 7, 2007

R.I.P., Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard, pataphysician, situationist, utopian, transveralist, metalepticist, and seer, dead at 77.

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Readers, email me with your thoughts. Spare me the Onion-style "Derrida, 'dead'" headlines, though, willya?

UPDATE
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