Commentary on Baudrillard

Members of English 65, The Cyborg Self, Brown University, Spring 2005 and Autumn 2006

• Power
• I Don't Want it unless I Can't Have it!
• The power of the Simulacra
• Virtual Demand
• Candy Bars and Sugar Pills
• Disneyland: The American Hyperdream
• Mickey Mouse As Masking the Absence of Reality
• Gender as Simulacrum
• Media Reality
• Religion: the first virtual representation of reality
• Virtuality of Language
• Fake Real, or Real Fake?
• Reality Blurs, Breaks Down
• God is Dead (Or is He?)
• Simulacrum of Divinity
• Sim Questions
• What Are We Really Doing?

Members of English 111, Cyberspace, VR, and Critical Theory, Brown University, Spring 1998

• Katherine Sibley Angus, Considering the Real
• Zachariah Boyle, Adorno ... Baudrillard ... Jerry Springer
• Jesse Chan-Norris, Simulated Death
• Joshua Conterio, Simulation and Mirrors
• Sharif Corinaldi, I am Typing on a Computer...I am Typing on a Computer: Subjectivity and Baudrillard
• Steve Cook, Spectacle, Currency, Bits -- Baudrillard, Postmodernism, and Power
• John Crews, Baudrillard and the Scandal Effect
• Keith Feldman, The Discovery Channel: Simulation of the Hyperreal [removed at author's request]
• Jacob George,
• Wayne Huang, The Land of the Free Information (You Get What You Paid For)
• Matthew Hutson, Collective Consciousness
• Ian Jones, Clone Me
• Laura Lee, Baudrillard and Nihilism
• Kelly Maudslien, Implosion, Manipulation, and Surveillance
• Caleb Neelon, Baudrillard in a Layup
• Daniel Parke, Constructs of Humanity
• William Peña, Re: Hyper-sterics? Christianity and Simulacra
• Matt Pillsbury, Even Better Than the (Hyper)real Thing
• Noah (the Dharma Bum) Raizman, Baudrillard, Postmodernism, and Power
• Elizabeth Rodwell, Hyper-sterics? Christianity and Simulacra
• Vivian Rosenthal, The Absolution of a Primary Real
• Glen Sanford, Science does not necessarily destroy its object
• Lora Schwartz, Baudrillard and Biology
• Dan Stein, Baudrillard vs. Dr. Richard Seed: Cloning Humans
• Izel Sulam, Simulacra, Fuzzy Logic, the Author Function, René Magritte, Hajime Sorajama, Information Theory and American Football
• Francesca Wodtke, Holding the Mirror up to Nature
• Ruiyan Xu, Simulations of the Real

Related Student Projects and Other Materials

• George P. Landow, Why is Baudrillard Important?
• International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (Bishops U., Canada)
• Elizabeth Rodwell, Baudrillard's Disneyland Adventure
• Caleb Neelon, Simulacratistical Fantastics, Digitality, Commodificatacrity, Late-Twentieth-Century Art, Old Reality and the Hyperreal

Last modified 30 December 2006