Jean Baudrillard Quotes - Page 6

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• At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Heart, Sexuality, Pornography

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• 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

  Exercise, Power, Abjection

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• Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Football, Responsibility, Bears

  "Nietzsche, Camus, Grass - the dream team" by Mark Perryman, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2006.

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• Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Animal, Men, Territory

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.139, University of Michigan Press

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• 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

  Days Gone By, Dying, Earth

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• 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

  Complaining, Television, Levels

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.102, Verso

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• 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

  Tired, Desire, Speak

  Source: outwardfromnothingness.com

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• In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Fashion, Play, Culture

  Jean Baudrillard (2016). “Symbolic Exchange and Death”, p.116, SAGE

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• the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Design, Machines, Emptiness

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.61, University of Michigan Press

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• 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

  Technology, Silence, Humanity

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• You have to know how to disappear.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Disappear, Know How, Knows

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.24, Verso

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• The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Confused, Able, Kind

  "Jean Baudrillard" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2007.

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• There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Together, Reason, Ecstasy

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.15, Verso

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• 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

  Distance, Spy, Use

  Jean Baudrillard (1998). “The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures”, p.121, SAGE

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• 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

  Plato, Shadow, Caves

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• 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

  America, Society, Fiction

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.29, Verso

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• The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology.... The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!

  Jean Baudrillard

  Heart, Class, Use

  "When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy". Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, 15, 1987.

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• The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Secret, Doe, Theory

  Jean Baudrillard (2007). “Forget Foucault”, Semiotext

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• So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Photography, Reality, Suffering

  "Photography, or the Writing of Light" by Jean Baudrillard, 2000.

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• If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Children, Hands, Play

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.116, Verso

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• If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Reality, Games, Odds

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Fake People, Mirrors

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.65, Verso

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

  Jean Baudrillard

  Light, Strange, Consideration

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.138, Verso

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• We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Peace, Nice, Passion

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.24, Verso

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• Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Language, Theory, Floats

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.24, University of Michigan Press

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