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The need to speak, even if on...

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Holidays are in no sense an a...

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Prophesying catastrophe is in...

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

For me, the photography, in i...

For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposed real world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Depression moods lead, almost...

Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

One of life's primal situatio...

One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Today's terrorism is not the ...

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Illusion is no longer possibl...

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

History that repeats itself t...

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Disneyland is presented as im...

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

We are no longer in a state o...

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Terror is as much a part of t...

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Forgetting the extermination ...

Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Simulation is the situation c...

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

The world is not dialectical ...

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

We shall never resolve the en...

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Cowardice and courage are nev...

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

There is no aphrodisiac like ...

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

The sad thing about artificia...

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Deep down, no one really beli...

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

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