To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Such is 'real time', the time of communication, information and perpetual interaction: the finest deterrence-space of time and events. On the real-time… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“In the past, we had objects to believe in—objects of belief. These have disappeared. But we also had objects not to believe… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Conclusion: from the moment the economic is there for something else, there is no point making endless critiques of it or analysing… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“The indifference of trees to the historical moment. The indifference of dreams to interpretation. The indifference of the people to its own… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“The whole gestural system of work was also obscene, in sharp contrast to the miniaturized and abstract gestural system of control to which it… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share
