Baudrillard Jean

Baudrillard, Jean. The Vital Illusion. Edited by Julia Witwer. New York Columbia University Press, 2000. A sociological perspective on what human cloning means to the idea of what it means to be human. 

Baudrillard, Jean (1968) Le systeme des objets, reprint Paris, Gallimard, 2000. 

In this regard, the remarks of Nicholas Royle on surrealism and the uncanny are particularly relevant to alchemy and modernity. He writes People can always think of [surreaHsm] as an artistic movement which has had its day, or suppose that (in Jean Baudrillard s words) surrealism can only survive as folklore . . . could we not suppose that surreaHsm remains a strange non-event that has no proper place, but stiU haunts. . . precisely everywhere and nowhere (97-98). 

Jean Baudrillard) shapes the poetics of the Russian neo-baroque in the prose of Andrei Bitov, Evgenii Kharitonov, Viktor Pelevin, Tatiana Tolstaia, Mikhail Shishkin, Sasha Sokolov, and in the poetry of the Nobel Prize Laureate Joseph Brodsky, Viktor Krivulin, Aleksei Parshchikov, Elena Shvarts, and many others. Unlike conceptualists, these postmodern writers -sometimes candidly, and with self-irony, and sometimes stoically - try to preserve connections with modernist aesthetics in the neo-baroque, the quest for modernist sensibilities is valued as a self-sufficient, albeit usually fruitless, quest for the real that lies hidden beneath endless layers of cnltnral simulacra and social spectacles. 

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