text: This thinker concluded that humanity are heirs to "symmetry" and "breakings of symmetry" in an essay about an anti- gravitational effect at the origin of the Universe.
full_question: This thinker concluded that humanity are heirs to "symmetry" and "breakings of symmetry" in an essay about an anti- gravitational effect at the origin of the Universe. In another essay, this thinker argued that Madonna has no "sexual otherness" and thus she must be fighting against her own body. Those essays, "The Secret Vestiges of Creation" and "The 'Laying Off' of Desire," appear in a collection in which this author becomes a detective and investigates the "murder of reality," The Perfect Crime. This philosopher used the fable "On Exactitude in Science" by Borges to examine how symbols were destroying the underlying real society. In another essay, he argued that the image of war superseded the actual conflict, and ultimately concluded that Saddam Hussein never truly lost. For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote Simulacra and Simulation and notoriously asserted "The Gulf War did not take place."
first_sentence: This thinker concluded that humanity are heirs to "symmetry" and "breakings of symmetry" in an essay about an anti- gravitational effect at the origin of the Universe.
raw_answer: Jean Baudrillard