Jean Baudrillard quotes - page 4

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. (Jean Baudrillard)
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. View quote
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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 also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart. View quote
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. View quote
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. View quote
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What is a society without a heroic dimension? View quote
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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 things. View quote
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario. View quote
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You are born modern, you do not become so. View quote
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world. View quote
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning. (Jean Baudrillard)
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? View quote
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. View quote
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Of being profoundly carnal and melancholy. View quote
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Forgetting extermination is part of extermination, because it is also the extermination of memory, of history, of the social, etc. This forgetting is as essential as the event in any case unlocatable by us, inaccessible to us in its truth. This forgetting is still too dangerous, it must be effaced by an artificial memory (today, everywhere, it is artificial memories that effect the memory of man, that efface man in his own memory). This artificial memory will be the restaging of extermination - but late, much too late for it to be able to make real waves and profoundly disturb something, and especially, especially through medium that is itself cold, radiating forgetfulness, deterrence, and extermination in a still more systematic way, if that is possible, than the camps themselves. View quote
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