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Challenging and wide-ranging social anthropologist whose ideas and influence reverberated far beyond her discipline

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Professor Mary Douglas argues that it’s more important to ask what kind of social organisation produces strong disgust responses than to argue about whether disgust is innate or learnt.

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Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist, born July 29 1929; died March 6 2007

The first part of this video is in Spanish. The interview with Bill Brown is in English.

‘In the tradition of the Situationist Internationale and urban agitprop activists, the Surveillance Camera Players are a New York City based theater troupe, who have gained legendary status by performing scenes from books, documentaries, films, and plays through a unique medium: the neon glare of security camera video monitors.’ The Disinformation Archive