This is my first presentation.

1. Jean Baudrillard By Beth Maggs 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007 Born in Reins, North Eastern France He was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work was associated with post-modernism and post-structuralism. He was known for being an intellectual figure of the present age whose work combines with philosophy, social theory and an idiosyncratic cultural metaphysics that reflects on key events. He was a sharp critic of society, culture and thought. The Algerian War in 1950/60s influenced him.

2. What he said “ You are born modern, you do not become so.” “ We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” “ The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.” “ All societies end up wearing masks.” “ Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro , but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling. ”

3. Bibliography The System of Objects (1968) The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (1970) For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (1972) The Mirror of Production (1973) Symbolic Exchange and Death (1976) Forget Foucault (1977) Seduction (book)

4. How does this relate to us? He talks about the society, and how they cover themselves up. It reflects the society and social meaning to how we look at the media world.