Jean Baudrillard Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Nihilism, Today, Terrorism

  "The spirit of terrorism" by Jean Baudrillard, ("The Violence of the Global"), 2003.

• Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mean, Commitment, Government

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.109, Verso

• The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Political, Challenges, Politics

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.191, Verso

• If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, Discovery, America

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.98, Verso

• Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Fashion, Past, Identity

  Jean Baudrillard (1993). “Symbolic Exchange and Death”, p.88, SAGE

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