Jean Baudrillard (1929--2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur.
Paul Foss founded artUs in 2003 in Los Angeles and previously taught history and philosophy of science at the University of New South Wales in Sydney before becoming editor of Art & Text from 1984 to 2002.