Jean Baudrillard† - Videos
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Baudrillard discusses his photography in which image moves towards absence, against the exaggerated presence of the world. with reference to an exhibition of his photographs at the Kassel Dokumenta
Jean Baudrillard speaking about the models and principles of reality and rationality, the philosophy of history of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, essence of globalization, modern culture and perception, concepts of emerging and submerging, the notion of parody, the essence and structure of power, singularity and assimilation, seduction and cannibalization, symbolic exchange. Philosophy seminar at the European Graduate School, Media and Communication Studies Department Program in 2004. EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe.
Baudrillard describes the current position of the globalized citizen as pornography. Pornography, literally and as a metaphor for "promiscuity of all exchanges and products", "Globalisation of exchanges puts an end of the universalisation of values", the universal itself is being globalised as capital. Baudrillard then relates these thoughts to reflect on radical Islam as a irreconcilable singularity faced with global universality. A lecture intermixed with many audience questions at the European Graduate School, in 2004. Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
A documentary by Pierre Bourgeois & Leslie Grunberg wherin Baudrillard explores his ideas and their evolution since the 1960s in depth. The starting-point is here the word as object, the object-word as a pass-word which gives access to the opbject's meaning beyond that of its mere use. Chapters include: The Impossible Exchange, The Transparency of Evil, Destiny and Duality. In French, no subtitles
Jean Baudrillard speaks of the violence of the image, especially a new '3rd form' of violence which has emerged recently: a 'meta-violence' of forced consensus and interaction, a violence of transparency which purports to put an end to violence itself. a pure violence without object, which is the violence of information. Open Lecture given at the European Graduate School, EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, in 2004.
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The synthetic order of the image as a pure artifact has overwhelmed us. Can we even call these images any more? Baudrillard asks whether it is possible today to retrieve, despite the violence of information and communication, the pure event of the image. Open Lecture given by Jean Baudrillard after his seminar for the students at the European Graduate School, in 2004.
Baudrillard responds to audience questions and explores his own radical definition or art as opposed to what it seems today. Art as a singularity, a horizon which is not really 'in the world', incompatible with reality, not goods put on the market. Culture is something which is born and which dies like an animal species.. We don't need to try to preserve culture. The hyper-real, not as a revolution but as an in-volution.
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Jean Baudrillard talks about the difference between changing and becoming. The impossibility to become in present times. Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2002. Jean Baudrillard
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Baudrillard reflects on his own death and that of Foucault, "Death must not be an accident, it must be an art of disappearance", a seductive act of retiring from the world. Interview taken in 2000 in Oslo by Truls lie, previous editor of Le Monde diplomatique, Oslo.
Baudrillard explores the qualities which constitute the Real, and how this can be perfectly exterminated through virtualiztation. He describes how the situationist critique has failed to protect even a negative notion of the Real and how even hopes, dreams and concepts will be supplanted by virtualization. Extermination as something that goes beyond its own end. A murder without a murderer. Audio recording of a 1999 lecture given at Wellek Library of University of California, Irvine.