Jean Baudrillard. Cultural Identity and Politics. 2002 1/8

[TheAnonymousAnomie]

I wish all the Philosophers I liked didn't have such thick foreign accents :(

[Msalcedotx1]

steviep111: isn't there some inherent absurdity about the goal of your analysis being the invalidation of that analysis? That's the only logical outcome if Baudrillard were to magically prove what he claims to be the nature of experience. If one succeeds in invalidating his or her own analysis, what was the point of trying?

[fullscale008]

i listened to this synced to pornography, and it made hella more sense

[orsaki]

You need a professional sound engineer at the EGS.

[Camerador]

the sound is so low...

[trevorloomis]

anybody know which text she's reading from?

[S2Cents]

Postmodernism has fucking ruined leftist politics and was about the last thing we in America needed. Well, maybe that is to say it is the last thing those concerned with economic issues needed. The left was busy obsessing over bullshit like Madonna and Disneyworld and weird theories about words and "reality"and gay but sex and politics shifted right and quality of life for working people went down. But we have more women in corporate board rooms and things.

[IvyLeagueJunkie]

Yes, he does look bored. Of course, consider what it may feel like to be repeatedly introduced to one of your own works: is it not likely he is just disinterested as one is disinterested by something they have drilled into the dirt?

I don't mind post-structuralist contributions on the condition they ask insightful questions and stay awake. There is a great deal to respect and be challenged by--especially when such insightful discourses are muddied by jargon and ennui. Wake. Up.

[abid172]

The cultrual Identity Impacts those who care about there Identities

[Maxoxpower]

WHAT THE Jean Breaudrillard, he is a star and i love him!!

[Maxoxpower]

WHAT THE Jean Breaudrillard, he is a star and i love him

[p4n0pt1c]

What he is describing is what is obviously wrong with the UK with all its emphasis on 'culture', even needing to blame its real societal problems on that very thing, so it can dissimulate the disappearance of any culture it can really blame.

[jmarkmusic]

For those who are complaining about the long intro, I believe she is reading a text by Baudrillard that he asked her to read. It's part of the seminar.

[egsvideo]

your observation is correct. baudrillard asked the reader to introduce the students to one of his texts.

[KHRISTOPHOLESZ]

As a cultural theorist it is reasonable to assume he is intelligent enough to figure out this courtesy to those who have trouble understanding his English with a French accent , it definitely was easier for me.2 understand

[libragoddess04]

JESUS! Longest intro EVER!

Next.

[LookTwizeMedia]

Oh God I've been to far too many of these kind of academic discussions where some always manage to take up half of the time given to present things all people present already know and later on even answer their own questions, leaving us wondering what they were getting at in the first place...Baudrillard looks a little annoyed doesn't he?;)

[SebastianGeffen]

can somebody please tell me the website for the European Graduate School? I can't find it anywhere

[PhotonDrive]

A thousand philosophies, languages, and cultures - but they ALL put gas in their cars! Never think of the absurd, unconsciousable waste and destruction this entails - except abstractly around the dinner table? Eliminate this one primal act - the gas pump, and humanism might begin to mean something.

[Lucifer986]

/The environment becomes of little importance when u realize the we have surpassed nihilism/. the idea of a destroyed world with no people seems appealing at this stage

[gen6k]

yeah adorno has it were all fucked

[chicoven]

Joder, qué introducción tan larga, para que hable Baudrillard..

[manwitamap]

i love jizz

[sunnyccplus]

what a silly world!!! how can Switzerland pretend that they are a peaceful country and they are unaligned. while they supported the Israeli planes with a high cameras technology, to invade Gaza!!!!!!!!!! it's so irony<<

[9407113678]

I wasn't thinking about America for five seconds, thanks a lot.

[billybraggdave1]

I like Richard Rorty ! post modernism is Europe thinking thre is somthing still relvent to say when there is not . They haven't had a great philopher since wittegenstein !

[AssemblyMass]

This is amazing. Throughout the whole clip he is throwing his voice, whilst speaking in a feminine tone.

[atolborg]

hahahhahahhahahh!!

[TubularContent]

Eggnog. He's thinking eggnog. "I ought to be listening to Chomsky." Handsome devil. Who? Baudrillard? No, Chomsky.

[Spenner56]

Dear emminent Sir, surely the Lisbon Treaty is in violation of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and therefore ilegal ? :

Article 1 : All peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic and cultural development.

The European Arrest Warrant is also in violation of the same Covernant ( Article 9).

[thejudicialbranch9]

uncouth ... "having no couth"... Old English cūþ, past participle of cunnan (to know (how))(can). sa·voir faire

Function: noun

Etymology: French savoir-faire, literally, knowing how to do

Date: 1815

: capacity for appropriate action ; especially : a polished sureness in social behavior

1. U.S. undoubtedly: used to give emphasis to something that somebody is saying and to indicate that somebody does not expect anyone to disagree with it

This sure tastes good.

[szaki]

Subtitle, please!

Can't understand a word!

[thejudicialbranch9]

three words or phrases in content

OLD ENGLISH: no couth

FRENCH: savoir-faire

US: sure

[xpressivist]

the problem with french postmodernist writers is they speak and write in a language only a few people understand and without even using logic in their writings. jerry fodor correctly observes that they also write so badly. but they surely tell very interesting stories that appeal to the masses. that's why they are popular. they are like hollywood celebrities. but do they contribute anything to the enrichment of human knowledge?

[mccail9]

she is a pain in the arse... so boring

[forum305]

Did anyone else catch on to the fact that he gave credit for wwII for bailing out the american economy from the great depression?! That has to be one of the most misunderstood aspects of the economics... please look up the broken window theory ....

[dionysuseatsyou]

The broken window theory only applies to when YOU are within the same economic system as the damage.

[apks2004]

Right On the money Video!

[sjmeerkees]

what is the name of the song

[indhold]

Why the duck are we not seeing (and hearing) the woman who is talking?

[BenNCM]

I'd rather be looking at him any day, just turn her mic up.

[kmsabia]

i love this old coot

[ARCHETECTONIC]

Hakware - awesome comment, I agree.

[matsutakneatche]

4:36, i think hes contemplating swing sets.

[guido737]

se escapo Barreda???

[TheMajorWorks1324]

i hope baudrillard burns in hell. The gulf war never took place he says. I would like to see him pick up a rifle.

[Oscar301]

Its a shame you weren't there... lacking the intellect for understanding a metaphor, war is probably more your thing

[iaeruo]

themajorworks..

unless you have a rifile in your hand all you know about, say, the iraq war, is that which is mediated to you. our reality is virtual.

there is an abesence in the image- one can speak of absences. one can also say in the virtual yesterday's news is no news - the perpetual "now" of readymade culture.

one can speak of a war not taking place. this is not to propose war didnt/doesnt take place in the physical world. it is about the virtuality of war.

[my interpretation]

[iaeruo]

themajorworks..

unless you have a rifile in your hand all you know about, say, the iraq war, is that which is mediated to you. our reality is virtual.

there is an abesence in the image- one can speak of absences. one can also say in the virtual yesterday's news is no news - the perpetual "now" of readymade culture.

one can speak of a war not taking place. this is not to propose war didnt/doesnt take place in the physical world. it is about the virtuality of war.

[my interpretation]

[cheesemidget123]

He didn't mean it literally.

[sophiaalmaria]

this is hilarious. i like when JB puts his chin on his fists.

[IllyrianVideo]

I thought the sound would be better

[unjusdorange]

Is this a video of Jean Baudrillard looking bored while some person is droning in the background? Why would you want to look at this? What would Baudrillard have to say about this pointless stream of images?

[xpressivist]

postmodernism is basically an attempt to replace a strawman called 'grand narrative' with a metagrandnarrative which is postmodernism. nobody can escape the normativity of reason explanation. there is nothing grand narrative or modern about reason and normativity. i bet postmodernists have nothing to say about normativity without using reason explanation. you can't escape normativity, dude.

[hakware]

The functionality of postmodernism is to replace a single inflexible grand narrative with a metanarrative that allows intercommunication of alternate narratives without the needless warring of contradictory reality tunnels. In this respect it's like kaballah, zen, sex, and sunday morning cartoons. Normativity can only succeed by self-annihilation. That much is obvious.

[ar0483]

why is the woman taking so much...who wants to listen to her gibberish any way ....?

[spunkets]

What a stupid video. This womans voice is so monotonous, I'm falling asleep.

I came here to hear Baudrillard, not some pseudo-intellectual.

Thanks for wasting my time

[Iberanarca]

I agree

[dildopsychologist]

Sorry, I forgot

CMBRDG RLZ!

EGS SUCKS!

[dildopsychologist]

Baudrillard is a bullshit for those who can't understand classical germans, thanck you.

[VomitAllIdeals]

He looks bored.

[randylahey123]

Don't watch these!!! It only aids the proliferation of ideas Baudrilard tried to unmask. These ideas become integrated into a massive archive of videos hence losing their autonomy and meaning. We need to look for the real! The Crystal!

[Mike1977a1]

What do you mean The Crystal?

[podfunk]

The "Fractal Self" that Mr. B. postulated

[yukily07]

May his soul stay calm now... I was in his neighborhood in Bretage. He was about dying but didn't make it appear one second. He had mostly a great sense of friendship and solidarity. We loved the person he was so much.

[Moonstone860]

Look at that sexy plug behind him

[ELTALLERDEARTE]

super

[BWV547]

Jean Baudrillard is brilliant--read the Evil Demon of Images--but it must be dull for him to listen to the lady prove how important he is when he probably doesn't care. At his level it isn't about agreeing or disagreeing, it's about "wow, what a viewpoint"--or so I take him. As for her, well, she's a starstruck academic

[0neironaut]

does anyone know what she is reading from?

[chinchilla8]

deadlyvengeance = SPOT ON CRITICISM. Now if only we could get the academy to realize the same...

[mccail9]

the french druid never got

to say anything about the american

mouth take some more swiss acid she is

the american nightmare made u tube

[jamesmidiadventure]

monotone just dont work, i need some expressive hand gestures

[deadlyvengeance222]

He is a master bullshitter. In fact, everything he says is bullshit. He attempts to analyze problems that simply do not exist. What's even worse is that his analysis requires you to think about what he says, which forces you to forget the way things really are. Life is what it is. What you see is what you get, so don't complicate it.

Don't even think about it.

And don't read Baudrillard.

Just keep playing videogames.

[opiate115]

Damn, I hate thinking. Stupid damn thinking. Thinking is gay and shit. So are books. Fuck thinking I'm gonna go play some video games.

[Didache11]

Agreed. Fuck thinking.

[steviep111]

"He attempts to analyze problems that simply do not exist."

Um, that's his whole point...Isn't it? He's analyzing problems that he argues don't even exist in the first place.

[0neironaut]

i guess we could place Baudrillard in the surrealist tradition if we *had* to pigeon-hole him. And though he analyzes so called "false-problems", or dilemmas that "don't exist", we should be mindful of what he means exactly by "existence" and "meaning" - their conditions, current state, and possibilities. "False-problem". And yet, all the more chilling when Baudrillard's fantastic stories describe perfectly the "reality" of the world we live in. certainly, there is profound truth in his jest.

[vincent7520]

ah ! ...

read him first, then we can argue about his contributions to social sciences and (more importantly) to the understanding of a consumers' sociaty... then we can talk about his shortcomings, which are real too ...

but bullshitting baudrillard onlyshows how limited your humanities are !!!...

[deadlyvengeance222]

You should all be imprisoned for thinking critically.

[Subjectivity101]

he does look bored doesn't he?

-- i feel the same way listening to most post-structuralists/postmodern­ists...

[egsvideo]

thank you for the comment. im sorry to hear that, but i hope you are feeling better today. greetings to australia ;)

[samuelsackeroff]

Who is this woman?

[bananamanhulk]

Baudrilliard is bored out of his skin!! :(

[JohannesScott]

Baudrillard