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Rick Roderick on Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies [full length]

The Partially Examined Life · lecture · Watch on YouTube

What it is

Rick Roderick's 1993 lecture on Baudrillard, the last in his series The Self Under Siege. It covers hyperreality, simulation and what Baudrillard calls fatal strategies.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a much easier way into Baudrillard's ideas than reading his own writing.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “much easier to digest than Baudrillard's writing”

    Lecture-style introduction to Baudrillard's concepts

    isoskeles, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Simulacra and Simulation”

  2. “here's an excellent presentation summarizing the idea”

    Presentation summarizing Baudrillard's hyperreality

    PKop, 2022-06 · Recommendation · in “Reading Ourselves to Death”

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Topics: baudrillard, hyperreality, simulacra, postmodernism, rick roderick

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