Jean Baudrillard. Violence of the Image. 2004. 2/9

http://www.egs.edu/ Jean Baudrillard thinking and talking about the violence of the image, the violence to the image, aggression, oppression, transgression, regression, effects and causes of violence, violence of the virtual, 3d, virtual reality, transparency, psychological and imaginary. Open Lecture given by Jean Baudrillard after his seminar for the students at the European Graduate School, EGS Media and Communication Program Studies Department, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, in 2004. He was expected to teach another seminar in April 2007, in Paris.‹a href="http://www.egs.edu/"›European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies department program‹/a›

Jean Baudrillard was born to a peasant family in Reims, north-eastern France, on July 29, 1929. He became the first of his family to attend university when he moved to the Sorbonne University in Paris. There he studied German language, which led to him to begin teaching the subject at a provincial lycée, where he remained from 1958 until his departure in 1966. While he was teaching Baudrillard began to publish reviews of literature, and translated the works of such authors as Peter Weiss, Bertolt Brecht and Wilhelm Muhlmann.

Toward the end of his time as a German teacher Baudrillard began to transfer to sociology, eventually completing his doctoral thesis Le Système des objets (The System of Objects) under the tutelage of Henri Lefebvre. Subsequently, he began teaching the subject at the Université de Paris-X Nanterre, a politically radical institution (at the time) which would become heavily involved in the events of May 1968. At Nanterre he took up a position as Maître Assistant (Assistant Professor), then Maître de Conférences (Associate Professor), eventually becoming a professor after completing his habilitation, L'Autre par lui-même (The Other, by himself).

In 1986 he moved to IRIS (Institut de Recherche et d'Information Socio-Économique) at the Université de Paris-IX Dauphine, where he spent the latter part of his teaching career. During this time he had begun to move away from sociology as a discipline (particularly in its "classical" form), and, after ceasing to teach full time, he rarely identified himself with any particular discipline, although he remained linked to the academic world. During the 1980s and 1990s his books had gained a wide audience, and in his last years he became, to an extent, an intellectual celebrity, being published frequently in the French and English speaking popular press. He nonetheless continued supporting the Institut de Recherche sur l'Innovation Sociale at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and was Satrap at the Collège de Pataphysique. He also collaborated at the Canadian philosophical review Ctheory, where he was abundantly cited. He died of illness on March 6, 2007 at the age of 77.

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[captaincraveman]

Fucking genius.

[lenejaV]

is there any transcript?

[Toka313]

His take on Big Brother with the spectacle of banality is flat out wrong. While in theory and concept of the show, yes, it would seem that is what we desire, but in application of production of the show the opposite is actually true.

[Phavonic]

4:48

EITHER: to be hidden and to exist on the right not to be seen.

OR: one shifts to a delerious exhibitionism of his own platitude and insignificance.

"If you remain hidden, you will regret it; of you shift you will also regret it; whether remain hidden or shift you will regret both" -Kierkegaard [paraphrase, of course]

Is anyone also seeing a seductive simplification in cross-referencing as I do? Kierkegaard did at least say the ethical (to be revealed) was offensive (violence)

[victor1eremita]

Baudrillard read us before we were born.

[lralon]

I love it how from 25,000 views in part #1, we came down to 3,500 view in part #2. Along with McLuhan, Barthes, and Derrida, he was one of my first loves as an undergrad, but it's clearly not for everyone.

[KHRISTOPHOLESZ]

one of the great philosophers of our time!

[therieyashow]

may your wise words let you live another lifetime!!!! peace and respect

[erghtrfgh]

Fucking hell!

[tammyfap]

Fucking lunatic!