Baudrillard Warned Us
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quotes from the works of Jean Baudrillard
Repurposed twitter bot from years ago. Texts scraped with regex and bad pdf2text extraction. Currently includes Seduction, Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, and The Ecstasy of Communication.
Repurposed twitter bot from years ago. Texts scraped with regex and bad pdf2text extraction. Currently includes Seduction, Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, and The Ecstasy of Communication.
"seduction, thus to its own failure as discourse."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 16, 2026 at 10:42 AM
"seduction, thus to its own failure as discourse."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"As a result, difference takes on another meaning."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 16, 2026 at 10:12 AM
"As a result, difference takes on another meaning."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"We would not even have the time to disappear."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 16, 2026 at 9:42 AM
"We would not even have the time to disappear."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"They may precede us on the path towards mutation and dehumanization."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 16, 2026 at 9:12 AM
"They may precede us on the path towards mutation and dehumanization."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"When all desire is channelled into the demand for enjoyment, the world turns upside down and bursts asunder."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 16, 2026 at 8:42 AM
"When all desire is channelled into the demand for enjoyment, the world turns upside down and bursts asunder."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Thus we saw Bourdieu and the Abbé Pierre offering themselves up in televisual sacrifice, exchanging between them the pathos-laden language and sociological metalanguage of wretchedness."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 16, 2026 at 8:12 AM
"Thus we saw Bourdieu and the Abbé Pierre offering themselves up in televisual sacrifice, exchanging between them the pathos-laden language and sociological metalanguage of wretchedness."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Information devours its own content."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 16, 2026 at 7:42 AM
"Information devours its own content."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"The cinema has never shone except.by pure seduction, by the pure vibrancy of non-sense - a hot shimmering that is all the more beautiful for having come from the cold."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 16, 2026 at 7:12 AM
"The cinema has never shone except.by pure seduction, by the pure vibrancy of non-sense - a hot shimmering that is all the more beautiful for having come from the cold."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"This alone is profoundly seductive."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 16, 2026 at 6:42 AM
"This alone is profoundly seductive."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"It is at the heart of this paradox, where the distinction between nature and culture is suppressed in the concept offinery, that the analogy between animality and femininity plays itself out."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 16, 2026 at 6:12 AM
"It is at the heart of this paradox, where the distinction between nature and culture is suppressed in the concept offinery, that the analogy between animality and femininity plays itself out."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Narkissos was in love with his sister, and when she died he used to visit the spring; he knew that what he saw was his own reflection, but even so he found some relief in telling himself it was his sister's image."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 16, 2026 at 5:42 AM
"Narkissos was in love with his sister, and when she died he used to visit the spring; he knew that what he saw was his own reflection, but even so he found some relief in telling himself it was his sister's image."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"As a form, desire marks the passage from their status as objects to that of subjects, but this passage is itself only a more refined, interiorized perpetuation of their servitude."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 16, 2026 at 5:12 AM
"As a form, desire marks the passage from their status as objects to that of subjects, but this passage is itself only a more refined, interiorized perpetuation of their servitude."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Something else, then, took place."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 16, 2026 at 4:42 AM
"Something else, then, took place."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"He seeks exclusive rights over the dead object with which he appeases his fetishist passion."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 16, 2026 at 4:12 AM
"He seeks exclusive rights over the dead object with which he appeases his fetishist passion."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"And if we live in this way, under the sign of a general ecology where in a sort of planetary niche, which is only the enlarged dimension of the Platonic cave, the ghosts of animals and the natural elements would come to rub against the shadow of men who survived the p..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 16, 2026 at 3:42 AM
"And if we live in this way, under the sign of a general ecology where in a sort of planetary niche, which is only the enlarged dimension of the Platonic cave, the ghosts of animals and the natural elements would come to rub against the shadow of men who survived the p..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"That is when things are all wrong."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 16, 2026 at 3:12 AM
"That is when things are all wrong."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"To the tragic illusion of destiny we prefer the metaphysical illusion of subject and object, the true and the false, good and evil, the real and the imaginary; but, in a final phase, we prefer the virtual illusion even more -- that of the neither true nor false, of the neith..."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 AM
"To the tragic illusion of destiny we prefer the metaphysical illusion of subject and object, the true and the false, good and evil, the real and the imaginary; but, in a final phase, we prefer the virtual illusion even more -- that of the neither true nor false, of the neith..."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"), if they thus programmed the chance of putting an end with one blow to both architecture and culture - then Beaubourg constitutes the most audacious object and the most successful happening of the century!"
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 16, 2026 at 2:12 AM
"), if they thus programmed the chance of putting an end with one blow to both architecture and culture - then Beaubourg constitutes the most audacious object and the most successful happening of the century!"
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"No longer any possible negation or surpassing, since we are already beyond."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 16, 2026 at 1:42 AM
"No longer any possible negation or surpassing, since we are already beyond."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Science loses precious capital there, but the object will be safe, lost to science, but intact in its "virginity.""
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 16, 2026 at 1:12 AM
"Science loses precious capital there, but the object will be safe, lost to science, but intact in its "virginity.""
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"It is the trait of reversion that effaces the remainder, just as a single ironic smile effaces a whole discourse, just as a single flash of denial in a slave effaces all the power and pleasure of the master."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 16, 2026 at 12:42 AM
"It is the trait of reversion that effaces the remainder, just as a single ironic smile effaces a whole discourse, just as a single flash of denial in a slave effaces all the power and pleasure of the master."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Seduction, being on the side of the appearances and the Devil, is aesthetically possessive."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 16, 2026 at 12:12 AM
"Seduction, being on the side of the appearances and the Devil, is aesthetically possessive."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"A boundary without something beyond it is unimaginable."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 15, 2026 at 11:42 PM
"A boundary without something beyond it is unimaginable."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Leave a message....' And the video plugged into the TV takes over the job of watching the film for you."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 15, 2026 at 11:12 PM
"Leave a message....' And the video plugged into the TV takes over the job of watching the film for you."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Traditional obscenity still contains an element of transgression, provocation, or perversion."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 15, 2026 at 10:42 PM
"Traditional obscenity still contains an element of transgression, provocation, or perversion."
- Seduction
- Seduction