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Baudrillard thought  

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  • Jean Baudrillard (19292007) has been hailed as a genius and as one of the most forward thinking social theorists of the 20th century, who utilized Marxism and theories of consumerism first and later utilized semiotics to explore everyday life. He reveled in the role of theoretical provocateur whose major contributions to theory and curriculum studies are simulation and hyperrealitythat is, disrupting the assumption that it is possible to represent a foundational reality. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Baudrillard Thought]

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