This thinker asked what we should do now that everything “has been liberated” and the “orgy is over.” This thinker cited Mauss’s gift-exchange and Freud’s death drive as examples of “symbolic exchange” that allow us to escape dominant ideologies. In The Transparency of Evil, this thinker called the saturation of art in the world “transaesthetics.” This philosopher invented a quote by Ecclesiastes to begin a chapter that considers (*) Borges’s (“BOR-hess’s”) map. Ideas multiplied and reflected by the media have structured our lives by supplanting the real, according to this philosopher’s idea of hyperreality. An essay by this philosopher argues that the asymmetrical power of the two sides in the Gulf War meant that it “did not take place.” For 10 points, name this author of Simulacra and Simulation. ■END■
ANSWER: Jean Baudrillard (“boh-dree-YARR”)
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