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Miri Davidson, β€œJean Baudrillard Grasped the Symbolic Life of Capital but Lost Track of the Material World”, Jacobin, open access

By: stuartelden β€” June 24th 2023 at 08:36

Miri Davidson, β€œJean Baudrillard Grasped the Symbolic Life of Capital but Lost Track of the Material Worldβ€œ, 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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