Jean Baudrillard. Violence of the Image. 2004. 1/9

[comrademattrulz]

Yes, it's violence, every last bit of everything. I'll buy that. But what's wrong with violence?

[makeiteasyable]

^^ nice

[SLACKER614]

RIP JB.....the tall trees are disappearing..

[59media]

Genius.

[Kirin9]

he lives on ^_^

[nbutubeslg]

English subtitles would be most welcome. Thanks to egs for making these lectures open access. There must be an energetic man or a group behind such a noble initiative. Wish them all good health.. :)

[zensorship]

RIP professor Baudrillard. His books are great! I only wish I could have met him in person!

[Lion117]

his english is nice. :]

shitty he passed.

[victor1eremita]

shitty he hasnt...

[SebastianGeffen]

really quiet audio

[lightepiphany]

I have to disagree that the writing style is annoying. It takes me forever to get through his books, but in that lies the pleasure. Like a snake digesting a large mammal, every inch is pleasurable even if I have to read parts 2 or 3 times before it sinks in. But when it sinks in, it's just one additional radical nugget stuck in your brain that really changes my thought process. That's how it is for me, so slowly with much repeating of phrases from the original JB.

[Waranoa]

Supposedly it is the postmodernist way of writing; the style spawns from the theory itself, but Baudrillard does not really adres this. Philosophers like Lyotard, Foucault and Derrida still talk more about truth and meaning in language, while Baudrillard usually deconstructs historical and actual scenes on the global stage.

[megalomaniaeighty]

@lightepiphany Snakes don't regurgitate. But I totally agree.

[Lucifer986]

his books are some of the hardest to understand, simply down to his terribly annoying writing style. non the less his work is some of the most interesting

[dalinean]

his defenition of violence may be different from others

[eydos]

Most interesting, most amazing.

[jazzbunny]

I like some of Baudrillard's arguments but sometimes he lacks knowledge about the things he uses as an example to support his argument - of course the example is not really that important but it still grinds on the nerves a bit. However, do you ever get the impression he is just ripping off a single sentence from Levi-Strauss and then building an entire philosophy around the creation of secondary texts but applying it to the media instead of anthropology?

[rastabus]

'jazzbunny' has spoken

[zgress]

'rastabus' has spoken

[IllyrianVideo]

And... now I present the rock... His presentations, unless he is presenting a rock, gets in my nerves

[sadhill17]

C'est étrange qu'en amateur de baudrillard on se fait parfaitement prendre par la stratégie du média. D'un autre angle peut-importe,j'imagine que c'est une dynamique fermé.

[VladimirSkaletsky]

RIP Jean Baudrillard

[encolpius1]

well this  is a kind of terrible irony

[BillBillard]

Who is the host?

And why do other viewers/posters think he is such a dork?

[egsvideo]

the "other" posters? anyway, the host is wolfgang schirmacher, the program director and founder of the media and communication studies program. without him no program, no lectures, and no interesting comment possibilities at youtube.

[benchimin]

I appreciate his good work, but I think he forgets that we're not there to see him and his lengthy commentaries that he never lets the speakers reply to. He just rips into people then goes "Anyway, moving on...." like an intellectual sucker-punch.

[FartheadOgre]

Why did they clothe the water in the third glass?