Alan Cholodenko

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Cholodenko appears to be the editor or facilitator of Baudrillard's "The Evil Demon of Images" lecture and related materials published by the Power Institute in Australia, positioning him as a key figure in circulating Baudrillard's ideas about simulation, hyperreality, and the collapse of the distinction between representation and reality in late capitalism. His role in translating and contextualizing Baudrillard's work—particularly around cinema's approach to "absolute reality" and the operationality of genetic and computer codes—makes him instrumental in bringing Continental media theory and cybernetic thought into dialogue with Australian intellectual culture in the 1980s. For a seminar on AI and architecture, Cholodenko's curatorial work helps establish how postmodern critiques of simulation become foundational to thinking about computational systems and their claim to transparency or authenticity.

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