Jean Baudrillard the cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer has died, Tuesday 6th March 2007.

He is best known for his analyses of modes of mediation and technological communication, although the scope of his writing spreads across more diverse subjects — from consumerism, to gender relations, to the social understanding of history through to more journalistic commentaries on AIDS, cloning, the Rushdie affair, the (first) Gulf War and the attacks on the World Trade Center. He has affinities with post-structuralism in that his arguments consistently draw on the...