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.
"There is however a privileging of the immediately preceding era (fascism, war, the period immediately following the war - the innumerable films that play on these themes for us have a closer, more perverse, denser, more confused essence)."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"There is however a privileging of the immediately preceding era (fascism, war, the period immediately following the war - the innumerable films that play on these themes for us have a closer, more perverse, denser, more confused essence)."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Make enigmatic what is clear, render unintelligible what is only too intelligible, make the event itself unreadable."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"Make enigmatic what is clear, render unintelligible what is only too intelligible, make the event itself unreadable."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"In the same movement, however, it will seek something more rapid than communication: the challenge, the duel."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"In the same movement, however, it will seek something more rapid than communication: the challenge, the duel."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Narcissus = narcosis (McLuhan had already made the connection): Electronic narcosis: it is the ultimate risk of digital simulation... We would slip from Oedipus to Narcissus... At the end of the self-management of our bodies and pleasures there would be a slow narcissistic narcosis."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
"Narcissus = narcosis (McLuhan had already made the connection): Electronic narcosis: it is the ultimate risk of digital simulation... We would slip from Oedipus to Narcissus... At the end of the self-management of our bodies and pleasures there would be a slow narcissistic narcosis."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"So even moral law can be seduced: in perversion, it enters as a tactical element in a ritual and ceremonial space -- perversion makes moral law function as a pure convention, and the divine as a diabolical artiface."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"So even moral law can be seduced: in perversion, it enters as a tactical element in a ritual and ceremonial space -- perversion makes moral law function as a pure convention, and the divine as a diabolical artiface."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Because it would be beautiful to be a nihilist, if there were still a radicality - as it would be nice to be a terrorist, if death, including that of the terrorist, still had meaning."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
"Because it would be beautiful to be a nihilist, if there were still a radicality - as it would be nice to be a terrorist, if death, including that of the terrorist, still had meaning."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"It is the locus of that which eludes you, and whereby you elude yourself and your own truth."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"It is the locus of that which eludes you, and whereby you elude yourself and your own truth."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Thus it would have been marvelous to repeat the script for The China Syndrome at Fessenheim, during the visit offered to the journalists by the EDF (French Electric Company), to repeat on this occasion the accident linked to the magic eye, to the provocative presence ..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"Thus it would have been marvelous to repeat the script for The China Syndrome at Fessenheim, during the visit offered to the journalists by the EDF (French Electric Company), to repeat on this occasion the accident linked to the magic eye, to the provocative presence ..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"To recover the constellation of the mystery [secret], we have to take something away from the accumulation of reality and language."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
"To recover the constellation of the mystery [secret], we have to take something away from the accumulation of reality and language."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"It cannot be verified, but can only betray itself, only `show through' [transparaître] like evil, squint out through appearances."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"It cannot be verified, but can only betray itself, only `show through' [transparaître] like evil, squint out through appearances."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"That is, they never form a functional system (reproduction, sexuality, ecology, mimicry - the postulates of an extremely impoverished ethology reworked and corrected by functionalism), but an ostentatious ceremony for mastering signs, and a cycle for seducing meaning, where the sign..."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"That is, they never form a functional system (reproduction, sexuality, ecology, mimicry - the postulates of an extremely impoverished ethology reworked and corrected by functionalism), but an ostentatious ceremony for mastering signs, and a cycle for seducing meaning, where the sign..."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The whole generic illusion of the image is cancelled out by technical perfection."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"The whole generic illusion of the image is cancelled out by technical perfection."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"As Wittgenstein says: `The world is everything which is the case'."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"As Wittgenstein says: `The world is everything which is the case'."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"In desperation, we shall be forced to turn it into a special attraction, a historical tableau, a nature reserve: `Coming to you live from reality!"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"In desperation, we shall be forced to turn it into a special attraction, a historical tableau, a nature reserve: `Coming to you live from reality!"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"For that, the mass of consumers must be equivalent or homologous to the mass of products."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"For that, the mass of consumers must be equivalent or homologous to the mass of products."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"And the two are merged in the initiative launched by new museums where the aim is not now to bring people to stand in front of the pictures -- which can be done successfully, but isn't interactive enough and smacks too much of the `spectacle' -- but to stand in the pictures ..."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 14, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"And the two are merged in the initiative launched by new museums where the aim is not now to bring people to stand in front of the pictures -- which can be done successfully, but isn't interactive enough and smacks too much of the `spectacle' -- but to stand in the pictures ..."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"It is this melancholia of systems that today takes the upper hand through the ironically transparent forms that surround us."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
"It is this melancholia of systems that today takes the upper hand through the ironically transparent forms that surround us."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"In fact, the danger was quite the opposite: that resulting from the social inertia of cold systems - cold producing cold."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"In fact, the danger was quite the opposite: that resulting from the social inertia of cold systems - cold producing cold."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The task is a tiresome one and the weary monks call in technicians from IBM, whose computers do the job in a few months."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"The task is a tiresome one and the weary monks call in technicians from IBM, whose computers do the job in a few months."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Nothing offers greater freedom, in fact, or greater sovereignty, than justified contempt -- and not even towards the enemy, but towards those basking with their good consciences in the warm sun of solidarity."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"Nothing offers greater freedom, in fact, or greater sovereignty, than justified contempt -- and not even towards the enemy, but towards those basking with their good consciences in the warm sun of solidarity."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"`I take responsibility' [J'assume], but for what?"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"`I take responsibility' [J'assume], but for what?"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"They no longer touch each other, but there is contactotherapy."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
"They no longer touch each other, but there is contactotherapy."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"The only phantasy in pornography, if there is one, is thus not a phantasy of sex, but of the real, and its absorption into something other than the real, the hyperreal."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"The only phantasy in pornography, if there is one, is thus not a phantasy of sex, but of the real, and its absorption into something other than the real, the hyperreal."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The jutting carapace of the instrument panel and the stylized sculpture of the steering column shroud reflected a dozen images of her rising and falling buttocks."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"The jutting carapace of the instrument panel and the stylized sculpture of the steering column shroud reflected a dozen images of her rising and falling buttocks."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Of all the prostheses that mark the history of the body, the double is doubtless the oldest."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"Of all the prostheses that mark the history of the body, the double is doubtless the oldest."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation