Jean Baudrillard Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Quality, Depth, Culture

• In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Fashion, Play, Culture

  Jean Baudrillard (2016). “Symbolic Exchange and Death”, p.116, SAGE

• Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers - and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Space, People

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Morning, Fall, Eye

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.224, Verso

• Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Sex, Ubiquity, Culture

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