All Jean Baudrillard Quotes
- The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment… Always Right
- The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who… According
- Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency… Anticipate
- It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do… Acceleration
- This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not… Advertising
- 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 escaped from Plato's… Activities
- It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire… Desert
- You have to know how to disappear. Disappear
- There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea. Few
- As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility,… Agility
- What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself. Funny
- The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix… Able
- If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this:… Appear
- Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Desert
- The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true. Conceals
- The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic,… All
- Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou… Art
- With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this… Cured
- In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the… Absolve
- At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance. Disappearance
- One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the… Abandon
- Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his… Business
- Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace… Abolish
- The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. Complexity
- A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power. Accidents