Jean Baudrillard. The Principles of Seduction. 2004 1/7

http://www.egs.edu/ Jean Baudrillard speaking about the models and principles of reality and rationality, the philosophy of history of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, essence of globalization, modern culture and perception, concepts of emerging and submerging, the notion of parody, the essence and structure of power, singularity and assimilation, seduction and cannibalization, symbolic exchange. Philosophy seminar at the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2004. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe.

Jean Baudrillard, born in Reims, France, on July 29, 1929, studied German language at the Sorbonne University in Paris, and taught 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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[kingu218]

This may sound silly but subtitles should really be considered for some of these videos. The video quality only helps to make the accents harder to understand. Perhaps subtitles could be considered?

[egsvideo]

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[AESF]

subtitles please