"Holidays are in no sense an alternative to……" — Jean Baudrillard
"Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for."
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Jean Baudrillard
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137 Quotes by Jean Baudrillard
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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