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 primarily as an editor and institutional figure rather than a theorist in his own right—he was associated with the Power Institute Publications that released Baudrillard's "The Evil Demon of Images" lecture. His role in the course readings is largely infrastructural: he facilitated the circulation of Baudrillard's critique of hyperreality and the image within art discourse, making him relevant to how media theory reached avant-garde institutions in the 1980s. The excerpts suggest Foss was instrumental in platforming continental theory about simulation and reality at a moment when cinema and representation were becoming central to understanding technological mediation.
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