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Conspiracy Thinking: Towards an Ambiguous Theory of Photography

Conspiracy Thinking: Towards an Ambiguous Theory of Photography by Dr. Ted Hiebert Exercise: Take a picture of someone wearing a tinfoil hat. Framing statement: In his 1927 story “The Tissue-Culture…

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Photography, Or The Writing Of Light by Jean Baudrillard

Photography, Or The Writing Of Light by Jean Baudrillard [1] Translated by Francois Debrix The miracle of photography, of its so-called objective image, is that it reveals a radically non-objective world. It…

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With Jean Baudrillard in Paris

With Jean Baudrillard in Paris by Nina Zivancevic Jean Baudrillard is in John Lechte’s book of “50 contemporary key-thinkers”. His analyses of the processes of seduction, consumerism in society and…

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Innermost depths of Baudrillard’s legacy in the book of Dr. Oleg Maltsev. Review of Maestro. The Last Prophet of Europe

Innermost depths of Baudrillard’s legacy in the book of Dr. Oleg Maltsev. Review of Maestro. The Last Prophet of Europe By Prof. Dr. Jerome Krase At the onset, I must…

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Baudrillard, Globalization and Tourism: or the dialectics of the nothing?

by Dr. Maximiliano E. Korstanje Introduction For some reason, which is very hard to precise here, Jean Baudrillard was an author who is not widely cited in tourism studies. This…

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Re-literation and Remixing the Self on Social Media

Steve Gennaro and Blair Miller York University, Toronto, Canada (Re)Mapping Remixes In theorizing about the self and digital media, it is worthwhile to posit a certain way of thinking about…

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About Baudrillard Photographies 1985-1998. Christa Steinle

There is no doubt that Jean Baudrillard, just like Derrida, Lyotard, Foucault, Virilio, Lacan and Deleuze, is one of those French philosophers whose theories had the most influence worldwide in…

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Kairos and contingency in photography: Jean Baudrillard’s photographs

by Peter Weibel The extraordinary impact of Baudrillard’s theoretical work on the development of art in the entire world is well known. Little known is the fact that Baudrillard himself…

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