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 Image
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.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
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
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis… — 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
The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage. — 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 we have… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
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 Image