Jean Baudrillard

philosopher · 20 mentions across 7 readings

In this course

Baudrillard is a theorist of hyperreality and simulation whose concepts of how images and signs detach from reality ground the CCRU's later development of hyperstition as a framework for understanding how fictional narratives can become materially real. His work appears in the course readings as a foundational reference for thinking about AI and society—his logic of hyperreality is extended to questions of how artificial systems generate their own social reality and meaning-making, particularly in contexts where the distinction between simulation and the real has collapsed.

Mentioned in 7 readings

Jean Baudrillard

The Evil Demon of Images

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THE EVIL DEMON OF IMAGES Jean Baudrillard   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…The Mari Kuttna Lecture on Film will present to the Australian public those filmmakers and theoreticians of film whose work is the most exciting, innovative and challenging in the world today. Thus, it was most appropriate that Professor Je…

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Scott Benzel

Notes on Foxacid, Quantumsquirrel, Weeping Angel

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Foxacid, Quantumsquirrel, Weeping Angel Notes on Cognitive Automata, Inducement, and Animal Spirits SCOTT BENZEL JUL 08, 2025 Caption: FOXACID, TOP SECRET/COMINT/NOFORN Figure text: TOP SECRET//COMINT//NOFORN FOXACID ROC ACID Nutrition Fac…its paradigm of personal control, asking: what if we can’t turn it off? The operation weaponized that icon of American and English culture—the television—automating means of a software injection, simple deceptions—turning off the screen and…Operation Vula, quote stuffing, hydras, Vortex, “Bayesian flooding” and “unselling” Generalizing FaceCloak; exploit and asymmetry… Fogging, Flooding, and Surfacing, Amplification, Inhibition, Wiping… [^1]: Lyotard, Jean Francois. tr. Ian …

Isabel Millar

from The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence

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The term hyperstition was coined by Warwick University’s Cybernetic Cultural Research Unit (CCRU) and continues to be one of the major concepts of the Accelerationist movement. A portmanteau of ‘hyper’ and ‘superstition’, drawing on the Bau…In a civilization in which Artificial Intelligence is becoming a significant element in the social bond, the psychoanalysis of AI is a provocation. It asks us to question both the meaning of psychoanalysis when taken outside of the purview …

Mark Fisher

SF Capital

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Cash is depotentiated capital: an enterprise cannot realise its capital, only a 'private' individual can, but this is effectively a translation from one kind of currency (fluid finance capital) to another (purchasing capital). In the proces…In the age of "microprocessing, digitality, cybernetic languages" Baudrillard argues, advertising - "still imaginary and spectacular" - has already been surpassed. Anticipating Cronenberg's Videodrome, Baudrillard invokes Philip K. Dick's "…

Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 syllabus Fall 2025

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Lab introduction to Colab/Python, huggingface, Github, et al Readings: qntm, There is no Antimemetics Division Nadia Asparouhova, Antimemetics, Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading Notes on Thinking Machine Imaginaries: Llull, Leibniz, and Love…Edward Bernays, Walter Lippmann, Propaganda, and Public Relations; The XX Committee, counterintelligence, ‘black propaganda’, and James Jesus Angleton’s “wilderness of mirrors”; early social engineering, parasociality and inducement, mis/di…

Joseph Matheny

Incunabula Papers

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2) The World Congress of Free Religions, a brochure-manifesto arguing for a “fourth way”, a non-authoritarian spiritual movement in opposition to mainstream, fundamentalist and New Age religion. The WCFR is said to include various sects of …

Tiqqun

The Cybernetic Hypothesis

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Whether it merely breaks with the individualist premises about economy or whether it considers the commodity economy as a regional component of a more general economy - which is what’s implied in all the discussions about the notion of valu…

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