  Baudrillard has never been as influential in France as in the English-speaking world and elsewhere – a point made in many French obituaries upon his death. He is an example of the “global popular,” a thinker who has followers and readers throughout the world, though, so far, no Baudrillardian school has  emerged.[20] Baudrillard’s influence has been largely at the margins of a diverse number of disciplines ranging from social theory to philosophy to art history, thus it is difficult to gauge his impact on philosophy or the mainstream of any specific academic discipline.