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Jean Baudrillard
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Jean Baudrillard Portrait, May 2005. Image courtesy of Olivier Roller.
Jean Baudrillard - Desk with typewriter and notepad. Image courtesy of Olivier Roller.
Jean Baudrillard - The empty chair in his apartment, May 2005. Image courtesy of Olivier Roller.
Jean Baudrillard - Empty frame in his apartment, May 2005. Image courtesy of Olivier Roller.
Jean Baudrillard - Bookshelf, Books, Chaos and Order. Image courtesy of Olivier Roller.
Jean Baudrillard - Apartment window with Flowers in Paris, Summer 2005. Image courtesy of Olivier Roller.
Jean Baudrillard - Right Hand and Arm. May 2005. Image courtesy of Olivier Roller.
Jean Baudrillard - Apartment of Jean Baudrillard, Wall and Boiler. Image courtesy of Olivier Roller.
Jean Baudrillard lecturing at EGS in Saas-Fee, Summer 2004.
Jean Baudrillard teaching his seminar at EGS Campus in Saas-Fee, Summer 2004.
Jean Baudrillard teaching his seminar at the European Graduate School.
Jean Baudrillard teaching at EGS in Saas-Fee, Summer 2004.
Jean Baudrillard teaching his seminar at EGS Campus in Saas-Fee, Summer 2004.
Jean Baudrillard teaching his seminar at the European Graduate School.
Jean Baudrillard teaching at EGS in Saas-Fee, Summer 2004.
Jean Baudrillard and Claire Denis at the European Graduate School, Summer 2004.
Jean Baudrillard at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Summer 2002.
Jean Baudrillard teaching his seminar at EGS Campus in Saas-Fee, Summer 2002.
Jean Baudrillard on the EGS Campus in Saas-Fee, Summer 2002.
Jean Baudrillard at the European Graduate School, June 2002
Jean Baudrillard and Dean Wolfgang Schirmacher on the EGS Campus in Summer 2002.
Jean Baudrillard and Dean Wolfgang Schirmacher at EGS Summer 2002.
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It is more difficult for us to imagine the real, History, the depth of time, or three-dimensional space, just as before it was difficult from our real world perspective to imagine a virtual universe or the fourth-dimension. The simulacra will be ahead of us everywhere. The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth — it is the truth which conceals that there is none. Since the world is on a delusional course, we must adopt a delusional standpoint towards the world.
Jean Baudrillard
We can only remember that seduction lies in not reconciling with the Other and in salvaging the strangeness of the Other. We must not be reconciled with our own bodies or with our selves. We must not be reconciled with the Other. We must not be reconciled with nature. We must not be reconciled with femininity (and that goes for women too). The secret to a strange attraction lies here. What do we do now the orgy is over?
Jean Baudrillard
It is not entrails that we try to interpret these days, nor even hearts or facial expressions; it is, quite simply, the brain. We want to expose to view its billions of connections and watch it operating like a video game…All that fascinates us is the spectacle of the brain and its workings. What we are wanting here is to see our thoughs unfolding before us ñ and this itself is a superstition.
Jean Baudrillard
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them: the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.
Jean Baudrillard
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
Jean Baudrillard
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
Jean Baudrillard
If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.
Jean Baudrillard
Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.
Jean Baudrillard
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore
Jean Baudrillard
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
Jean Baudrillard
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
Jean Baudrillard
Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food
Jean Baudrillard
Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.
Jean Baudrillard
Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
Jean Baudrillard
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Jean Baudrillard
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: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.
Jean Baudrillard
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Jean Baudrillard
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
Jean Baudrillard
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
Jean Baudrillard
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
Jean Baudrillard
You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.
Jean Baudrillard
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
Jean Baudrillard
The order of the world is always right — such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
Jean Baudrillard
The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
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 life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
Jean Baudrillard
Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
Jean Baudrillard
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