← Back to Canon
person

Jean Baudrillard

🎲

French philosopher and cultural theorist referenced in a humorous post about quitting a nonprofit arts admin job after listening to Red Scare podcast.

Mentions (20)
"You *felt* like you read a ton of books because you digested 200 context-free Baudrillard screenshots on Twitter, name checked 5 American poets during a dating app convo, read some meta-meta-Substack piece criticizing a New Yorker piece criticizing Jia Tolentino, and mainlined YouTube book talks at "
"Without real countries, Baudrillardian Disneylands emerge. Imitations of real things, imitations of imitations, and imitations without originals. As generations go by, young people take these plastic products for real things"
The tourist is the quintessential archetype of our times · u/More_Finding_2373 · ↑395 · 2025-03-23
"I remember my friend telling me how he covertly pulled up porn on his phone while fucking a girl so that he could finally cum (very baudrillardian lmao)"
The pornfree subreddit is so depressing · u/Minimalisimo · ↑295 · 2021-04-20
"Per Baudrillard, a system of images are in place instead of something related to reality. Proper science is still unmatched epistemologically, but most of the published 'reseach' is performative."
Fucking hate hyperspecialized stemlord academics · u/Primordial-Pineapple · ↑140 · 2025-03-20
"This is transgressive art. This is the end point of all the neverending challenges and fads. This is a Baudrillardian ubermensch in the flesh and she will spell your name and put on a funny mask, just please watch for 3 more minutes."
The pinkydoll npc stream on tiktok is honestly such a genius bit · u/do-not-look-up · ↑90 · 2023-07-22
"The movie was such a cheap copy of itself that it proves Baudillard right"
The new matrix assures me that I do live in a simulation · u/Kanyes_Guest · ↑72 · 2021-12-25
"I haven't got any deep knowledge about baudrillard but is this what he meant with simulacra? people wanting reality portrayed not as it is but as a simulation of an already simulated thing?"
"i used to work in nonprofit arts admin but then i heard dasha say "yeah totally" in that voice and suddenly i couldn't morally justify anything anymore. now i just sit in my apartment and read baudrillard in a bikini."
dasha said "mmm" and i quit my job · u/fatty_catty · ↑47 · 2025-06-29
"I'll be right in a literal or a Baudrillard sense. Thank God I'm smart enough to know how to respond to things like this"
The Russia War Will Not Take Place · u/Ok_Win6741 · ↑44 · 2022-02-12
"The fourth stage is pure simulacrum, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever. Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims."
"Tried to read Simulation and Simulacra last month. I had been looking forward to it as you hear him mentioned so often I figured he must have some interesting ideas."
On Baudrillard · u/RevEliJenkins · ↑38 · 2025-02-25
"I very much know this isn't even remotely a particularly new or revolutionary idea and already DFW, Baudrillard, Neil Postman, William S. Burroughs, Marshall McLuhan and probably twelve dozen other people have written about this in some form over the last 60 or so years"
"Everyone here thinks their particular suffering is somehow special because they've read Freud and Baudrillard and the silver spoon age pervert or whatever. But if every poster in this sub constantly going on about being "lost in life" or how hard online dating suxx etc just played some goofy prank o"
Reddit is mostly a vile hell-pit except for the normies. · u/GayPimpDaddy · ↑35 · 2023-04-16
"I'm most of the way through and thoroughly impressed by it so far. Very Baudrillardian, and it's giving me a lot to think about."
"there is nothing in the world that looks even slightly like what it is and this process of baudrilliardian cultural psychosis reached its apotheosis in the shoe."
no one has made a shoe that looks normal since 1945 · u/mybigfatgreekaffect · ↑30 · 2023-11-02
"So at some point she started asking me about my interests and shit and thats when the time came to drop 'oh a little bit of philosophy and literature'. And immediately she gives me the cuntiest smirk yet and says ''oh reeeeally'' (not exactly, it was in slovenian but same vibe) followed by 'like wha"
baudillard got me pussy once · u/ChippersonLyle123 · ↑68 · 2021-12-08
"So at some point she started asking me about my interests and shit and thats when the time came to drop 'oh a little bit of philosophy and literature'. And immediately she gives me the cuntiest smirk yet and says ''oh reeeeally'' (not exactly, it was in slovenian but same vibe) followed by 'like wha"
baudillard got me pussy once · u/ChippersonLyle123 · ↑68 · 2021-12-08
"every gadd'amn day i wish jean baudrillard and mark fischer and walter benjamin and guy debord and susan sontag and g. w. f. hegel himself were all here to watch the hulu continuation with me"
"I very much know this isn't even remotely a particularly new or revolutionary idea and already DFW, Baudrillard, Neil Postman, William S. Burroughs, Marshall McLuhan and probably twelve dozen other people have written about this in some form over the last 60 or so years"
"Baudrillard (my favourite one)."
Graves of Paris · u/SilviusBrabo · ↑22 · 2023-10-01
powered by Intelligence Briefings Co.