THE EVIL DEMON OF IMAGES
Jean Baudrillard
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The First Mari Kuttna Memorial Lecture
THE EVIL DEMON OF IMAGES
Jean Baudrillard
Dedicated to the Memory of
Mari Kuttna
1934 - 1983
Power Institute …Mari Kuttna turned from academic life to life as a film critic and translator, contributing reviews to Sight and Sound and to Montage, as well as writing a regular column for The Lady. Much respected for her criticism, she was a member of t…This gift has come as a consequence of a mother thinking of how an irreparable loss could be turned into some kind of human gain. That is what Madame Gré has done. She has given immortality to her daughter whose remembrance will be in all t…
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Hermann Black does not appear in the provided excerpts; Mari Kuttna is the figure memorialized here—a mid-twentieth-century film critic and translator whose work bridged academic discourse and popular criticism through venues like Sight and Sound. Baudrillard dedicates his lecture on image and simulation to her memory, suggesting her critical practice around visual media and representation remained relevant to his theorization of the hyperreal and the "evil demon" of images that collapse reality and representation.
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