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…The interviewers are grateful to Philippe Tanguy for his immediate rendering of their questions into French and of Professor Baudrillard's answers into English. The interview took place at the Bondi Hotel in Sydney on 12 August 1984.
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Paul Patton
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Paul Patton appears to be the translator or editor facilitating Baudrillard's "The Evil Demon of Images" for English-language readers, likely responsible for rendering the French theorist's work into English during a 1984 Sydney interview. While Patton himself doesn't articulate a distinct theoretical position in these excerpts, his labor of translation makes Baudrillard's critique of cinema's claim to capture "absolute reality" and the sign-function of images legible to the course, which grapples with how machines and media flatten representation into simulation. His presence marks the geopolitical and linguistic mediation necessary to circulate continental media theory through Anglophone art and architecture discourse.
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