--- title: "13 Real Quotes By Jean Baudrillard" description: "13 Real quotes by Jean Baudrillard. Plus more from Jean Baudrillard and more Real sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bb/jean-baudrillard-1500_desert_welcome-to-the-desert-of-the-real-290241_2902414.jpg" --- > [Welcome to the Desert of the Real,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/welcome-to-the-desert-of-the-real/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bb/jean-baudrillard-1500_desert_welcome-to-the-desert-of-the-real-290241_2902414.jpg) > [When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/when-the-real-is-no-longer-what-it-used-to-be-nostalgia-assumes-its/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b2/jean-baudrillard-1500_assuming_when-the-real-is-no-longer-what-it-used_149177.jpg) > [Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/illusion-is-no-longer-possible-because-the-real-is-no-longer-possible/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/920/jean-baudrillard-1500_illusion_illusion-is-no-longer-possible-because-t_2529522.jpg) > [Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/disneyland-is-presented-as-imaginary-in-order-to-make-us-believe-that/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca9/jean-baudrillard-1500_believe_disneyland-is-presented-as-imaginary-in_277247.jpg) > [For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/for-me-the-photography-in-its-purest-form-is-a-variant-of-the-fable/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/418/jean-baudrillard-1500_another-way_for-me-the-photography-in-its-purest-for_349049.jpg) > [The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-very-definition-of-the-real-becomes-that-of-which-it-is-possible/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/jean-baudrillard-1500_hyper_the-very-definition-of-the-real-becomes_933704.jpg) > [This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/this-is-what-terrorism-is-occupied-with-as-well-making-real-palpable/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ec/jean-baudrillard-1500_cybersecurity_this-is-what-terrorism-is-occupied-with_1482626.jpg) > [It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/it-is-the-real-and-not-the-map-whose-vestiges-subsist-here-and-there/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/482/jean-baudrillard-1500_desert_it-is-the-real-and-not-the-map-whose-ves_557145.jpg) > [Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/pornography-is-the-quadraphonics-of-sex-it-adds-a-third-and-fourth/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90c/jean-baudrillard-1500_add_pornography-is-the-quadraphonics-of-sex_3063036.jpg) > [But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/but-what-if-god-himself-can-be-simulated-that-is-to-say-can-be/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2e/jean-baudrillard-1500_circuits_but-what-if-god-himself-can-be-simulated_667940.jpg) > [Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/freud-thought-he-was-bringing-the-plague-to-the-u-s-a-but-the-u-s-a/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/jean-baudrillard-1500_air_freud-thought-he-was-bringing-the-plague_2812184.jpg) > [... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-age-of-simulation-thus-begins-with-a-liquidation-of-all/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48c/jean-baudrillard-1500_age_the-age-of-simulation-thus-begins-with-a_918159.jpg) > [“A scaled-down version of the clash between the real and the virtual and its fantastic consequences at the planetary level: the dissociation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/a-scaled-down-version-of-the-clash-between-the-real-and-the-virtual/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b3/jean-baudrillard-1500_big-bang_a-scaled-down-version-of-the-clash-betwe_2946897.jpg) ## Other authors on Real ## More by Jean Baudrillard > [“The whole gestural system of work was also obscene, in sharp contrast to the miniaturized and abstract gestural system of control to which it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-whole-gestural-system-of-work-was-also-obscene-in-sharp-contrast/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/we-will-live-in-this-world-which-for-us-has-all-the-disquieting/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/holidays-are-in-no-sense-an-alternative-to-the-congestion-and-bustle/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/there-is-nothing-funny-about-halloween-this-sarcastic-festival/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-sickly-cultural-pathos-which-the-whole-of-france-indulges-in-that/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/we-need-a-visible-past-a-visible-continuum-a-visible-myth-of-origin/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/history-that-repeats-itself-turns-to-farce-farce-that-repeats-itself/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/perhaps-our-eyes-are-merely-a-blank-film-which-is-taken-from-us-after/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/if-everything-is-perfect-language-is-useless-this-is-true-for-animals/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/there-exists-between-people-in-love-a-kind-of-capital-held-by-each/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/when-the-real-is-no-longer-what-it-used-to-be-nostalgia-assumes-its/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/with-the-truth-you-need-to-get-rid-of-it-as-soon-as-possible-and-pass/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [You have to know how to disappear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/you-have-to-know-how-to-disappear/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/large-department-stores-with-their-luxuriant-abundance-of-canned/) [Jean Baudrillard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-baudrillard/) > [The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/the-sad-thing-about-artificial-intelligence-is-that-it-lacks-artifice/) [Jean 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They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of \"doing your own thing,\" air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jean Baudrillard" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-baudrillard/freud-thought-he-was-bringing-the-plague-to-the-u-s-a-but-the-u-s-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/jean-baudrillard-1500_air_freud-thought-he-was-bringing-the-plague_2812184.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/jean-baudrillard-1500_air_freud-thought-he-was-bringing-the-plague_2812184.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/jean-baudrillard-1500_air_freud-thought-he-was-bringing-the-plague_2812184.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the…” — Jean Baudrillard", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "... 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. 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The two no longer have anything in common, nor is there any communication between them: the unconditional extension of the virtual (which includes not just the new images or remote simulation, but the whole cyberspace of geo-finance, the space of multimedia and the information superhighways) brings with it an unprecedented desertification of real space and of all that surrounds us. The information superhighways will have the same effect as our present superhighways or motorways. They will cancel out the landscape, lay waste to the territory and abolish real distances. What is merely physical and geographical in the case of our motorways will assume its full dimensions in the electronic field with the abolition of mental distances and the absolute shrinkage of time. All short circuits (and the establishment of this planetary hyperspace is tantamount to one immense short circuit) produce electric shocks. What we see emerging here is no longer merely territorial desert, but social desert, employment desert, the body itself being laid waste by the very concentration of information. A kind of Big Crunch, contemporaneous with the Big Bang of the financial markets and the information networks. We are merely at the dawning of the process, but the waste and the wastelands are already growing much faster than the computerization process itself. The two worlds, though literally cut off from each other, are equally exponential. But the discrepancy between them does not create any new political situation or genuine crisis, for memory fades at the same time as does the real. 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