...he is just simulated that way.
The Guardian has one of the more informative obituaries. The Times of London gives a bit more detail. As for the New York Times, Baudrillard's most significant achievement was having the cover of his book, "Simulations and Simulacrum," featured in the film Matrix. Baudrillard claimed that the filmmakers misunderstood his work, and I probably do as well, but I am sure he would have made something out of how the obituary writer internalized the replacement of reality with media simulations.
The title of this diary is an obvious play on the title of one of his works, "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" about how the first Gulf War was more of a media event than an actual war, with Saddam simply sacrificing his troops to stay in power while the US just bombed away more for show than to achieve any strategic objective, leaving the power structure on the ground intact.
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