Power Quotes by Jean Baudrillard

8 Power quotes by Jean Baudrillard

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Jean Baudrillard’s eight short reflections on Power expose the simulacra of modern influence, questioning what is real in the age of media.

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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…

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Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should…

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“The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade…

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

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Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity…

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Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupifying the masses

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Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

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Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw…

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Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape…

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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

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The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

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“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have…

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

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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our…

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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…

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but…

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

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness,…

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You have to know how to disappear.

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Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence.…

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

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