THE VIDEO SHELF · baudrillard and hyperreality
Rick Roderick on Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies [full length]
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 HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a much easier way into Baudrillard's ideas than reading his own writing.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- The Partially Examined Life
- Topic
- baudrillard and hyperreality
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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A bit longer but here's another video that covers some of Baudrillard's concepts, in more of a lecture form but much easier to digest than Baudrillard's writing: [VIDEO]
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