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 …In its present endeavours cinema increasingly approaches, with ever increasing perfection, absolute reality: in its banality, in its veracity, in its starkness, in its tedium, and at the same time in its pretentiousness, in its pretention t…
Paul Foss
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Paul Foss appears as a minimal presence in these excerpts—likely an editor or publisher associated with the Power Institute Publications that released Baudrillard's "The Evil Demon of Images," though his direct intellectual contribution remains unclear from these fragments. The reading positions him within the institutional apparatus that circulated Baudrillard's critique of simulation and hyperreality at a moment when cinema's claim to capture "absolute reality" was becoming philosophically suspect. His relevance to the course lies in the historical mediation of theory about representation and the real through small press and academic publishing rather than through a specific theoretical contribution.
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