Baudrillard Warned Us
@baudrillardwarned.us
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.
"It is also characteristic of the fractal object to be contained entirely in its minutest details."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"It is also characteristic of the fractal object to be contained entirely in its minutest details."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Negative satellites of the city that translate the end of the city, even of the modern city, as a determined, qualitative space, as an original synthesis of a society."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"Negative satellites of the city that translate the end of the city, even of the modern city, as a determined, qualitative space, as an original synthesis of a society."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"All meaningful discourse seeks to end appearances: this is its attraction, and its imposture."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"All meaningful discourse seeks to end appearances: this is its attraction, and its imposture."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"It will never, therefore, be discovered."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
"It will never, therefore, be discovered."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"and that now permits each term to be the remainder of the other term characterizes a phase of reversibility during which there is "virtually" no more remainder."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"and that now permits each term to be the remainder of the other term characterizes a phase of reversibility during which there is "virtually" no more remainder."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"But what can porn do in a world pornographied in advance?"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
"But what can porn do in a world pornographied in advance?"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"It is a radical functionalism that reaches its paradoxical limits and burns them."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"It is a radical functionalism that reaches its paradoxical limits and burns them."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"The construction of a double, of a physical and mental identity shell."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"The construction of a double, of a physical and mental identity shell."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Because mummies don't rot from worms: they die from being transplanted from a slow order of the symbolic, master over putrefaction and death, to an order of history, science, and museums, our order, which no longer masters anything, which only knows how to condemn wha..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"Because mummies don't rot from worms: they die from being transplanted from a slow order of the symbolic, master over putrefaction and death, to an order of history, science, and museums, our order, which no longer masters anything, which only knows how to condemn wha..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"These signs were pregnant with meaning, which even if almost allegorical was that of the name."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"These signs were pregnant with meaning, which even if almost allegorical was that of the name."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"It is not, therefore, something worth understanding."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
"It is not, therefore, something worth understanding."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"A cellular dream of schizogenesis - the surest form of parenthood, since it finally allows one to bypass the other, and go from the same to the same (one will still require a woman's uterus, and a hollowed out ovum, but these aids are short-lived and anonymous - any female prosthesi..."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
"A cellular dream of schizogenesis - the surest form of parenthood, since it finally allows one to bypass the other, and go from the same to the same (one will still require a woman's uterus, and a hollowed out ovum, but these aids are short-lived and anonymous - any female prosthesi..."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Or as here, in seduction, where the girl, her passion and liberty, are very much.a part of the strategy's unfolding."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
"Or as here, in seduction, where the girl, her passion and liberty, are very much.a part of the strategy's unfolding."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"That distance, that absence, are today under threat."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 AM
"That distance, that absence, are today under threat."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Seduction too mocks the truth of signs, but makes it into a reversible appearance, while the hysteric plays with the signs but without sharing them."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"Seduction too mocks the truth of signs, but makes it into a reversible appearance, while the hysteric plays with the signs but without sharing them."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Whereas we could face up to the unreality of the world as spectacle, we are defenceless before the extreme reality of this world, before this virtual perfection."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"Whereas we could face up to the unreality of the world as spectacle, we are defenceless before the extreme reality of this world, before this virtual perfection."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"A model of directed anticipation, the hypermarket (especially in the United States) preexists the metropolitan area; it is what gives rise to metro areas, whereas the traditional market was in the heart of a city, a place where the city and the country came to rub elb..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
"A model of directed anticipation, the hypermarket (especially in the United States) preexists the metropolitan area; it is what gives rise to metro areas, whereas the traditional market was in the heart of a city, a place where the city and the country came to rub elb..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Gods and men were not separated by the moral chasm of religion: they continuously played the game of mutual seduction; the sympbolic equilibrium of the world is founded on these relations of seduction and playfulness."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"Gods and men were not separated by the moral chasm of religion: they continuously played the game of mutual seduction; the sympbolic equilibrium of the world is founded on these relations of seduction and playfulness."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"The void that would have signified the disappearance of any culture of meaning and aesthetic sentiment."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
"The void that would have signified the disappearance of any culture of meaning and aesthetic sentiment."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"We are looking for a reduction into partial objects and the fulfillment of desire in the technical sophistication of the body."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 AM
"We are looking for a reduction into partial objects and the fulfillment of desire in the technical sophistication of the body."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"No need to play the lover of justice for the weaker sex."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"No need to play the lover of justice for the weaker sex."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"In the last instance, a purely sexual statement, a pure demand for sex, is impossible."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"In the last instance, a purely sexual statement, a pure demand for sex, is impossible."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Things are in order."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"Things are in order."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"All that seeks to be singular and incomparable, and does not enter into the play of difference, must be exterminated."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"All that seeks to be singular and incomparable, and does not enter into the play of difference, must be exterminated."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"All the wastes and disorders are digested and recycled."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 29, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"All the wastes and disorders are digested and recycled."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime