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The surprises of thought are ...

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 254 quotes

Terrorism, like viruses, is e...

Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its shadow, ready to activate itself anywhere, like a double agent.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Genius is childhood recapture...

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

A woman spent all Christmas D...

A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

If everything on television i...

If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

The desert is a natural exten...

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

In days gone by, we were afra...

In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

We have dreamt of every woman...

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

The new shopping malls make p...

The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

America is the original versi...

America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

There are only a few images t...

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 254 quotes

This false distance is presen...

This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

The skylines lit up at dead o...

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Photography is our exorcism. P...

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Every photographed object is m...

Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

For the heavenly fire no longe...

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 254 quotes

One of the pleasures of travel...

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

The need to speak, even if one...

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 it's meaning

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Art does not die because there...

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Information...exhausts itself ...

Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

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