Rick Roderick on Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies [full length]
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a much easier way into Baudrillard's ideas than reading his own writing.
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2020 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends isoskeles · 2020-05 · on “Simulacra and Simulation”
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: [this video]
Recommends PKop · 2022-06 · on “Reading Ourselves to Death”
Author talks of text as abstraction compared to "edited" version of reality of visual media. But videos, movies, TV shows are also abstractions, possibly worse in that they more easily trick our subconscious into perceiving them as more real than words on a page while still being constructions of a "reality" based on the creator's point of view. So people think they have an understanding of the world based on fictionalized entertainment and tropes they've experienced thousands of times from screens. Think of any time someone makes a political argument, or comments on a particular aspect of human nature by referencing something they saw in a movie. I think this is odd, at least if over done,
Cites avgcorrection · 2024-01 · on “Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain”
It was more like about 10 years before that? The narrative was inspired by Jean Baudrillard. The guy who also inspired The Matrix.[1] 10 years before that game he was talking about the Hyper Reality of the Gulf War; that what “really” happened was dictated by CNN.[2] But it’s not like those games give credit to all contributors equally. [1] Or his ideas [2] [this video]
Cites nonrandomstring · 2024-03 · on “What Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future”
> You're not supposed to adopt it as your real, actual ideology lol. Is this a joke? It's called "fatal strategies". See philosopher Rick Roderick [0,1] or read the less accessible original from Jean Baudrillard [2,3] Example (Roderick's): Coordinate to conspicuously not protest or vote on something that is objectively outrageous. The tyrants will be forced to stuff ballots with fake opposition so as not to make corruption obvious. For example 100% election victory by North Korean dictator etc. Another example: Gay, queer culture adopting those words with pride and wearing them as a "weaponised" badge of honour. Embracing being a Luddite is a way to defuse and neutralise the term. It's a bit