Jean Baudrillard Quotes

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• We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  World, Too Much Information, Information Overload

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and simulation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Illusion, Simulacrum

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and Simulation”, p.19, University of Michigan Press

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• Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Quality, Depth, Culture

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• The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Ignorance, Opposites, Deceit

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• What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Simulacrum, Knows

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

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

  Jean Baudrillard

  Art, Doe, Too Much

  Jean Baudrillard (2005). “The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews, Essays”, Semiotext

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• 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

  Sophisticated, Enough, Simulation

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• All societies end up wearing masks.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Wearing A Mask, Mask, Ends

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

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Believe, Order

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.175, Stanford University Press

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

  Jean Baudrillard

  Funny, Humor, Computer

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Desert, Welcome

  Jean Baudrillard, Enrique Valiente Noailles (2007). “Exiles from Dialogue”, p.78, Polity

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• 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

  Simulacrum

  Jean Baudrillard, Mark Poster (1988). “Selected Writings”, p.166, Stanford University Press

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

  Jean Baudrillard

  Photography, Mirrors, Exorcism

  Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• 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

  Smile, Profound, Shining

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.34, Verso

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• When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Nostalgia, Assuming

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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• The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Bored, Boring, Bores

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• 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

  Generations, World, Being There

  Jean Baudrillard, Emily Agar (1997). “Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1990-1995”, p.33, Verso

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• Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Sex, Ubiquity, Culture

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• Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Art, Language, Kind

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

  Jean Baudrillard

  Farce, Turns, Repeats

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• 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

  Needs, Speak, Lost

  "The Ecstasy of Communication" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Bernard and Caroline Schutze, New York:Semiotext(e), (p. 30), 1987.

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• ... 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

  Real, Age, Resurrection

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• It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Identity, Force, Asks

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.46, Verso

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• We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Historical, Events, Collapse

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Pay, Life Is, Pining

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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