Television Quotes by Jean Baudrillard

8 Television quotes by Jean Baudrillard

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Baudrillard’s eight short statements turn television into a philosophical puzzle, hinting at his ideas about simulation and reality. Perfect for a quick intellectual spark.

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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of…

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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…

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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports,…

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“Here, television succeeded in completing a fantastic operation of directed consensus building, a real power grab, an OPA [Tender offer] to the…

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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man…

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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is…

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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 Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn…

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“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man…

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“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the…

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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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