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.
"Unequal exchange once again."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 15, 2026 at 9:12 PM
"Unequal exchange once again."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Good is when Good comes out of Good, or Evil out of Evil."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 15, 2026 at 8:42 PM
"Good is when Good comes out of Good, or Evil out of Evil."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"On the one side, inertia and silence."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
"On the one side, inertia and silence."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Psychosomatics evolves in a dubious manner at the borders of the principle of illness."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
"Psychosomatics evolves in a dubious manner at the borders of the principle of illness."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"But does there still exist a subliminal aspect to things?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
"But does there still exist a subliminal aspect to things?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Thus the form of advertising has imposed itself and developed at the expense of all the other languages as an increasingly neutral, equivalent rhetoric, without affects, as an "asyntactic nebula," Yves Stourdze would say, which envelops us from every side (and which a..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 15, 2026 at 6:42 PM
"Thus the form of advertising has imposed itself and developed at the expense of all the other languages as an increasingly neutral, equivalent rhetoric, without affects, as an "asyntactic nebula," Yves Stourdze would say, which envelops us from every side (and which a..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Only the secret is seductive: the secret which circulates as the rule of the game, as an initiatory form, as a symbolic pact, which no code can resolve, no clue interpret."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
"Only the secret is seductive: the secret which circulates as the rule of the game, as an initiatory form, as a symbolic pact, which no code can resolve, no clue interpret."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Thus they provided the image of a world order ruled not by laws, as in the Christian universe or political economy, but by a mutual seduction that ensured the symbolic equilibrium between gods and men."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
"Thus they provided the image of a world order ruled not by laws, as in the Christian universe or political economy, but by a mutual seduction that ensured the symbolic equilibrium between gods and men."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Ideology only corresponds to a corruption of reality through signs; simulation corresponds to a short circuit of reality and to its duplication through signs."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 15, 2026 at 5:12 PM
"Ideology only corresponds to a corruption of reality through signs; simulation corresponds to a short circuit of reality and to its duplication through signs."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"How does one dissimulate oneself?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 15, 2026 at 4:42 PM
"How does one dissimulate oneself?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"The photo is not an image in real time."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 15, 2026 at 4:12 PM
"The photo is not an image in real time."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Yes, but up until now all environmental mutations derived from an irreversible tendency towards a formal abstraction of elements and functions, to their homogenization into a single process, as well as to the displacement of gestural behaviors: of bodies, of effor..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM
"Yes, but up until now all environmental mutations derived from an irreversible tendency towards a formal abstraction of elements and functions, to their homogenization into a single process, as well as to the displacement of gestural behaviors: of bodies, of effor..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Previously, it was at least the other who was taken to be different."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"Previously, it was at least the other who was taken to be different."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"They are signs without a subject of enunciation, nor an enounced, they are pure signs in that they are neither discursive nor generate any exchange."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 15, 2026 at 2:42 PM
"They are signs without a subject of enunciation, nor an enounced, they are pure signs in that they are neither discursive nor generate any exchange."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Everything eludes itself, everything scoffs at its own truth, seduction renders everything elusive."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 15, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"Everything eludes itself, everything scoffs at its own truth, seduction renders everything elusive."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"A copy of this formula is inscribed in each of the tens of billions of cells that constitute me."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM
"A copy of this formula is inscribed in each of the tens of billions of cells that constitute me."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Meaning does not slip from one form to the other, it is the forms which slip directly from one to the other, as in dance movements or in oracular prophecies."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
"Meaning does not slip from one form to the other, it is the forms which slip directly from one to the other, as in dance movements or in oracular prophecies."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Clones."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 15, 2026 at 12:42 PM
"Clones."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Not in the repression of a few affects or representations - our insipid conception of the unconscious - but in our blindness before the Big Game, before the fact that our "real" fate with all its "real" events has already passed through, not some anterior life (though by itself this..."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
"Not in the repression of a few affects or representations - our insipid conception of the unconscious - but in our blindness before the Big Game, before the fact that our "real" fate with all its "real" events has already passed through, not some anterior life (though by itself this..."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"What is exact is already too exact, what is exact is only what approaches the truth without trying."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 15, 2026 at 11:42 AM
"What is exact is already too exact, what is exact is only what approaches the truth without trying."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"The discourse of truth is quite simply impossible."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 15, 2026 at 11:12 AM
"The discourse of truth is quite simply impossible."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Therefore I can only conceive of speaking of it in terms of simulation, much in the same manner that Borges reconstitutes a lost civilization through the fragments of a library."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 15, 2026 at 10:42 AM
"Therefore I can only conceive of speaking of it in terms of simulation, much in the same manner that Borges reconstitutes a lost civilization through the fragments of a library."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"One need only carry this analysis to its full potential to grasp what has happened to transparence and the obscenity of the universe of communication, which have long surpassed the obscenities still relative to the universe of the commodity."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 15, 2026 at 10:12 AM
"One need only carry this analysis to its full potential to grasp what has happened to transparence and the obscenity of the universe of communication, which have long surpassed the obscenities still relative to the universe of the commodity."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"So, in Bellochio's film The Sentence [La Condanna], the question is whether the man really raped the woman, since she had an orgasm."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 15, 2026 at 9:42 AM
"So, in Bellochio's film The Sentence [La Condanna], the question is whether the man really raped the woman, since she had an orgasm."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"And the war ended "spontaneously" when this objective was achieved."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 15, 2026 at 9:12 AM
"And the war ended "spontaneously" when this objective was achieved."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation