| Sylvère Lotringer, literary critic and cultural theorist talking about Jean Baudrillard and the intellectual influences that gave rise to his ideas about consumer society including surrealism, Alfred Jarry, Georges Bataille, and Antonin Artaud. In this lecture Sylvère Lotringer discusses different theories of society, consumer and control societies, the invention of self-consciousness and introspection in guilt societies through the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault in relationship to Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss. European Graduate School EGS |
