GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 35
Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 1 mark · Multiple choice
Whom would you associate the term ‘simulacra’ with?
- Noam Chomsky
- Jean Baudrillard
- Félix Guattari
- Michel Foucault
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Correct answer: (B) Jean Baudrillard
Explanation
Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation describes copies that have no original.