Jean Baudrillard Quotes About Los Angeles

Quotes about: Los Angeles

• Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Kings, New York, Earthquakes

• In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury themselves in the ground and will no longer have names. Everything will become infrastructure bathed in artificial light and energy. The brilliant superstructure, the crazy verticality will have disappeared. New York is the final fling of this baroque verticality, this centrifugal excentricity, before the horizontal dismantling arrives, and the subterranean implosion that will follow.

  Jean Baudrillard

  New York, Crazy, Light

• It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  New York, May, Limitless

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.52, Verso

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