Jean Baudrillard is one of the founders of postmodernism.

"The publication in France of Simulacra et Simulation in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward thoerizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earalier. Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notiions of cultural expenditure.

"Baudrillard uses the concepts of the simulacrum---the copy without an original---the copy without an original---and simulaltion, crucial to an understanding of the postmodern, to address the concept of mass reproduction and reproducibility that charcterizes our electronic media culture."

--- from the Book Jacket.

This aspect of the postmodern, as simulacrum, as virtual reality, is an important aspect for you to bear in mind. More soon . . . jeanne, October 27, 2001.