French Philosopher and traditional European thinker Jean Baudrillard is one of the most pivotal and influential intellectuals of the 20th and indeed of the 21st century.

Following Heidegger Baudrillard saw - with horror - the collapse of the occidental metaphysical dimension and the subsequent disappearance of the real.

Baudrillard foresaw that this collapse would lead not only to the disappearance of the real but also to the reappearance of everyhing as a copy of a copy without access to the source: the Simulacrum - the destiny of the world.

Look around you. The world is increasingly framed and pre-formatted modes of experience beg the question: do we live in a simulation? The short answer is, yes! But it's less spectacular and much more horrifying than anything portrayed in The Matrix films.

Join us for an intense weekend of discussion and enter into THE SIMULACRUM. Is there a way out? What is the simulacrum? How much will it intensify? What will a world made up of AI images and deep fakes look like?

Join The Simulacrum

What to expect


What you get:

2 exclusive videos on Baudrillard.
8+ hours of group seminar recordings led by Dr. Johannes A. Niederhauser

What we discuss at the seminars:

During the seminars there will be plenty of time to ask Johannes questions and to set forth your own interpretation of the text and our age. More importantly, you will meet, get to know the other and discuss with other participants.

We will discuss in great detail Baudrillard's ideas but also draw on pop-cultural productions and phenomena to make sense of our simulated world.




Questions discussed

  • What are examples of simulations? Simulacra?
  • How can we at all tell what they are?
  • What is the role of movies?
  • What is the role of Capital?
  • Does Baudrillard offer a way out?
  • How does his theory relate to Plato's Myth of the Cave?



“Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.”
― Jean Baudrillard