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... the age of simulation thus...

... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself.

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

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

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

As the end of the century appr...

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

Smile and others will smile ba...

Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

One can speak of an alterity o...

One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

This false distance is present...

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

All of [the] activities here h...

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

It is the real, and not the ma...

It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

You have to know how to disapp...

You have to know how to disappear.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

There are only a few images th...

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

The price we pay for the compl...

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relational -to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

The simulacrum is never that w...

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 254 quotes

Welcome to the Desert of the R...

Welcome to the Desert of the Real,

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

A series of accidents creates ...

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

Jean Baudrillard 254 quotes

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