Analysis Of Jean Baudrillard’s Thought Of Technical Artifact

As a representative of postmodern theory, the French theorist Baudrillard’s writings are known for obscurity and difficulty. He kept thinking about various social problems and creating new ideas all his life, which led to the different viewpoints and appraises in the academic. However, due to the onedimensional development of science and technology, Baudrillard was very concerned about the change of the human beings’fate in his complex thinkings. From "The System of Objects" at the early stage to "The Perfect Prime" at the later period, Baudrillard kept to study the relation between the world of "objects" and the human beings, he kept to also research how the technical artifact induced and controlled the human beings step by step. Moreover, Baudrillard’s thinking of technical philosophy in the early time was mainly around the technical artifact in "The System of Objects", the research of this project has a positive effect about understanding, enriching and improving the theory of technical artifact in the technical philosophy, it is also contribute to realize the source of Baudrillard’s thinking at the early stage and the thought of later.This article contains five chapters to discuss. It firstly studies the background of technical artifact’s produce since the end of World War II, and then analyses profoundly the process of the formation and development of the Baudrillard’s thought. Based on the second chapter, the third chapter in the position of the representative opus "The System of Objects", and discusses in detail the Baudrillard’s thinking of technical artifact in the modern consumer society, the third chapter also describes the process of formation and transformation about the symbolization of the object. The next chapter focuses on the thought of the objects’ symbolization and the farreaching influence of the theory of technical artifact at the early stage. The early ideas express Baudrillard’s critical thinking of technical artifact in the consumer society. All of above demonstrate the pessimism and the technicalal determinism in Baudrillard’s technical philosophy at the early stage.