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 …Translated by Philippe Tanguy
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A.C.: In your Kuttna Lecture, The Evil Demon of Images, you invoke the notion of the immorality of images, at one point declaring that "the image has taken over and imposed its own immanen…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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Philippe Tanguy
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Philippe Tanguy appears in these readings as the translator of Jean Baudrillard's "The Evil Demon of Images" and as the facilitator of a 1984 interview conducted in Sydney, rendering questions and responses between French and English. His role is largely infrastructural—enabling access to Baudrillard's theorization of images, simulation, and immorality at a specific historical moment—but crucial for circulating critical media theory across linguistic and geographic boundaries within the emerging discourse on image culture and its philosophical stakes.
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