BUE Runder Tisch Pod

I. Brutal Truth: The More We Communicate, the Less We Mean Baudrillard opens fire on the myth that more information = more understanding. “We live...

I. Brutal Truth: War Is No Longer Fought, It’s Filmed Baudrillard takes Apocalypse Now and uses it as a weapon to expose how war has...

The China Syndrome I. Brutal Truth: Media Doesn’t Reflect Reality. It Manufactures It Baudrillard dissects The China Syndrome (1979), a film about a nuclear accident,...

I. Brutal Truth: Media Transforms Atrocities into Consumable Narratives In this chapter, Baudrillard argues that the media's representation of historical atrocities, such as the Holocaust,...

The Beaubourg Effect: Implosion and Deterrence I. Brutal Truth: Culture Now Exists to Prevent Culture Baudrillard goes after the Centre Georges Pompidou (Beaubourg), a famous...