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Miri Davidson, “Jean Baudrillard Grasped the Symbolic Life of Capital but Lost Track of the Material World”, Jacobin, open access

June 24, 2023 9:36 am

Miri Davidson, “Jean Baudrillard Grasped the Symbolic Life of Capital but Lost Track of the Material World“, Jacobin, open access

French philosopher and social scientist Jean Baudrillard smokes a cigarette in Paris. (Photo by Sophie Bassouls/Sygma via Getty Images)

French thinker Jean Baudrillard developed a pioneering analysis of symbolism and consumption in modern capitalism with some valuable insights. But he lost sight of the material structures on which capital’s power depends and drifted into a political dead end.

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