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…
Ted Colless
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Ted Colless appears to be the editor or curator of the Power Institute Publications edition that presents Baudrillard's "The Evil Demon of Images" lecture, serving as the apparatus through which this foundational text on simulation and media reality enters the course's theoretical toolkit. The excerpts suggest Colless's role is primarily archival and institutional—he's the mediator preparing Baudrillard's critique of cinema's claim to absolute reality for a contemporary readership grappling with algorithmic image-making and synthetic media. His appearance here is functional rather than authorial, marking the circulation and gatekeeping of critical frameworks around representation that remain urgent for thinking about machine-generated visual culture.
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