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Jean Baudrillard quotes: It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous. It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together. There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of the indifference of all public signification. I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of the indifference of all public signification.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion. All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning. Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO. Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: If it could, capitalism would make due with white rats. If it could, capitalism would make due with white rats.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Power floats like money, like language, like theory. Power floats like money, like language, like theory.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The transition from signs that dissimulate something to signs that dissimulate that there is nothing marks a decisive turning point. The transition from signs that dissimulate something to signs that dissimulate that there is nothing marks a decisive turning point.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency. Melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: When everything is social, suddenly nothing is. When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The secret of theory is that truth does not exist. The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability. One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others. The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: It is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them). It is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened. Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death. For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality. It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty. The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them. We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself. It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage. The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night. Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event. All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: What is a society without a heroic dimension? What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Jean Baudrillard quotes: It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality. It is the corpse of the bourgeoisie that separates us. With us, it is that class that is the carrier of the chromosome of banality.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination. Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Desert is simply that: an ecstatic critique of culture, an ecstatic form of disappearance. Desert is simply that: an ecstatic critique of culture, an ecstatic form of disappearance.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security. This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Welcome to the Desert of the Real,
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself. What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce. The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Genius is childhood recaptured. Genius is childhood recaptured.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Forgetting extermination is part of extermination. Forgetting extermination is part of extermination.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: It is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation. It is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real. Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide. Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: You have to know how to disappear. You have to know how to disappear.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge. It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truthit is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true. The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth
it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: We live of seduction, but die Fascination We live of seduction, but die Fascination
Jean Baudrillard quotes: When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible. When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ. We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Take your desires for reality! can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power. Take your desires for reality! can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The presence is not deleted before the vacuum is cleared before a redoubling of presence that erases the opposition of the presence and absence The presence is not deleted before the vacuum is cleared before a redoubling of presence that erases the opposition of the presence and absence
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end. For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: You are born modern, you do not become so. You are born modern, you do not become so.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: All societies end up wearing masks. All societies end up wearing masks.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea. There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself. Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance. At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality. Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory. Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: A thing which has lost its idea is like the man who has lost his shadow, and it must either fall under the sway of madness or perish. A thing which has lost its idea is like the man who has lost his shadow, and it must either fall under the sway of madness or perish.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much. Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true. Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Smile and others will smile back. Smile and others will smile back.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise. Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning ... Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning ...
Jean Baudrillard quotes: There is no aphrodisiac like innocence There is no aphrodisiac like innocence
Jean Baudrillard quotes: I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are with their weapons. Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us. I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are with their weapons. Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: [I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored. [I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud. The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: Mass(age) is the message. Mass(age) is the message.
Jean Baudrillard quotes: WHAT ARE YOU DOING AFTER THE ORGY? WHAT ARE YOU DOING AFTER THE ORGY?
Jean Baudrillard quotes: The whole world thus becomes integrated as a spectacle into the domestic universe. The whole world thus becomes integrated as a spectacle into the domestic universe.

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