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Sven Birkerts: The Gutenberg Elegies
Jean Baudrillard - The despair of having everything
The West's mission is to make the world's wealth of cultures interchangeable, and to subordinate them within the global order.
Postmodernism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
First published Fri Sep 30, 2005 That postmodernism is indefinable is a truism. However, it can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning.First published Fri Apr 22, 2005; substantive revision Wed Mar 7, 2007 French theorist Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) was one of the foremost intellectual figures of the present age whose work combines philosophy, social theory, and an idiosyncratic cultural metaphysics that reflects on key events of phenomena of the epoch.
Jean Baudrillard (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Karl Marx (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
First published Tue Aug 26, 2003; substantive revision Mon Jun 14, 2010 Karl Marx (1818–1883) is best known not as a philosopher but as a revolutionary communist, whose works inspired the foundation of many communist regimes in the twentieth century. It is hard to think of many who have had as much influence in the creation of the modern world.Question : do some images, some exceptional images escape from this double violence - that of the image and that done to the image ? Is it any chance to escape from the hegemonic overflow of the visual surrounding as to recover the original power of the image - the vital power of illusion ? At first we will point at three forms of violence.
Jean Baudrillard - The violence of the image
