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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
There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
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
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
If it could, capitalism would make due with white rats.
— Jean Baudrillard
Power floats like money, like language, like theory.
— Jean Baudrillard
The transition from signs that dissimulate something to signs that dissimulate that there is nothing marks a decisive turning point.
— Jean Baudrillard
Melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency.
— Jean Baudrillard
Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.
— Jean Baudrillard
When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.
— Jean Baudrillard
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
— Jean Baudrillard
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.
— Jean Baudrillard
It is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).
— Jean Baudrillard
Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.
— Jean Baudrillard
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
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
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
It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.
— Jean Baudrillard
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.
— Jean Baudrillard
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
— Jean Baudrillard
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
Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses
— Jean Baudrillard
Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.
— Jean Baudrillard
Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.
— Jean Baudrillard
Desert is simply that: an ecstatic critique of culture, an ecstatic form of disappearance.
— Jean Baudrillard
This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.
— Jean Baudrillard
Welcome to the Desert of the Real,
— Jean Baudrillard
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body.
— Jean Baudrillard
What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.
— Jean Baudrillard
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
— Jean Baudrillard
The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.
— Jean Baudrillard
Genius is childhood recaptured.
— Jean Baudrillard
Forgetting extermination is part of extermination.
— Jean Baudrillard
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
— Jean Baudrillard
Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.
— Jean Baudrillard
Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.
— Jean Baudrillard
You have to know how to disappear.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
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
it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true. — Jean Baudrillard
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
— Jean Baudrillard
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
— Jean Baudrillard
We live of seduction, but die Fascination
— Jean Baudrillard
When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.
— Jean Baudrillard
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.
— Jean Baudrillard
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
— Jean Baudrillard
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
— Jean Baudrillard
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
— Jean Baudrillard
Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.
— Jean Baudrillard
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
Take your desires for reality! can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
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
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
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
— Jean Baudrillard
For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end.
— Jean Baudrillard
You are born modern, you do not become so.
— Jean Baudrillard
All societies end up wearing masks.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself.
— Jean Baudrillard
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
— Jean Baudrillard
At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.
— Jean Baudrillard
Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.
— Jean Baudrillard
Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.
— Jean Baudrillard
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.
— Jean Baudrillard
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.
— Jean Baudrillard
Smile and others will smile back.
— Jean Baudrillard
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
Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning ...
— Jean Baudrillard
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence
— Jean Baudrillard
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
[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.
— Jean Baudrillard
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
— Jean Baudrillard
The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.
— Jean Baudrillard
Mass(age) is the message.
— Jean Baudrillard
WHAT ARE YOU DOING AFTER THE ORGY?
— Jean Baudrillard