Jean Baudrillard. Image and Representation. 2004


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www.egs.edu Open Lecture presented by Jean Baudrillard following his seminar for the students at the European Graduate College, EGS Media and Communication System Studies Office, Saas-Price, Switzerland, Europe, in 2004. He was expected to teach yet another seminar in April 2007, in Paris.
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20 Responses to Jean Baudrillard. Image and Representation. 2004

  1. Sorry, but–as with its Germanic philosophical forefathers (i.e., Heidegger)–French post mod philosophy-speak now strikes me as faux-profound. A pretty thin gruel, ideas-wise, for a great deal of spade-work required to follow the thread of the thought. Read Freud and forget Lacan, read Nietzsche and forget Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, et. al. Better still, read Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats & forget the lot of ‘em (except Nietzsche)! Grad school flashback time–oh, the horror! The horror!

  3. yes i thought the same thing. when there is no reciprocity there is only the manufacturing of noncommunication, so empower reciprocity…

    but there is still ‘transmission.’ does tranmission make possible “response” or “speech”? perhaps in a way through the internet. but transmitting may also be equal to dismantling and neutralizing the exchange, and in the internet the role of transmitter and receiver is *internalized.*
    it is manipulation that becomes reciprocal

  4. Baudrillard only says that he is “more left than Marx” because he resists the Marixist idea that cultural practices outside of production do not have value.

  7. YouTube is the perfect example of the “reciprocity” Baudrillard dreamed of that wasn’t possible with T.V. medium. The producer/consumer model is now transgressed.

  8. Equally fascinating and flawed.

    There’s no way a theory so depoliticising and lacking in pragmatism could belong to the left. Yet Baudrillard pictures himself as ‘more left than Marx’?

    Baudrillard’s work stands in itself like an ironic allegory for the cultural logic of late capitalism.

  10. My political theory professor met Baudrillard when he was in grad school when Baudrillard spoke on his campus. He goes to a bar with Baudrillard an a Brazilian student studying abroad. My prof. starts spouting off his analysis of Baudrillards “Simulation and Simulacra,” Debord and all that.
    “So what do you think?” my prof asks Baudrillard
    “Baudrillard takes a drink, looks at him, looks at the other student and says, “So… tell me about Brazil.”
    Jean, you are sorely missed.

  15. I actually made a similar critique in one of my former lives as lady of negotiable leisure in the backstreets of an unknown city in what is know known as Kent, my unread book was called “Reality, tings and stuff innit” and was’nt published in 1500BC because we only had spears and rabbits back then, and no playgrounds. I kick myself now. So please no comments of the so and so said this ages ago, because I was there first, spaceman.

  19. This critique of representation and the disappearance of the referent began with good old Saussure. These Po Stu folks are exploring possibilities and implications of Saussures’ ideas.

  20. Couldn’t believe it when he died. I read The Mirror of Production- it was wonderful, and then I saw the news on the 6th! So sad… and here I just discovered him!