Au Revoir, Baudrillard

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Passed into the hyperreal

In his final anti-consumerist, postmodern act, French philosopher Jean Baudrillard allowed Wikipedia to scoop the American press with news of his death. The tidings were posted on the wiki at 1:14 p.m., hours before the Jerusalem Post ran the AP version.

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