# Jean Baudrillard **Domain:** Philosophy / Media Theory / Postmodernism **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Simulacra and Simulation]], [[Postmodernism]], [[Camouflage Ontology]], [[The Matrix (1999)]] --- ## Definition Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) was a French theorist of simulation, signs, consumption and mediated reality. ## Corpus Context [[Simulacra and Simulation]] is his load-bearing work in this corpus. It helps distinguish a representation of reality from a system of signs and models that operationally produces what counts as real. ## Relationships [[Simulacra and Simulation]], [[Postmodernism]], [[Camouflage Ontology]], [[The Matrix (1999)]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]