Baudrillard : A Critical Reader, Paperback by Kellner, Douglas (EDT), ISBN 1557864667, ISBN-13 9781557864666, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Self-described "intellectual terrorist" Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important and provocative writers of the contemporary era. Widely acclaimed as the prophet to postmodernity, he has famously announced the disappearance of the subject, political economy, meaning, truth, the social, and the real in contemporary social formations.