Jean Baudrillard Quotes - Page 3

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• Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Delicacy, Landscape, Affluence

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• Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Men, Skills, Independence

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.216, Verso

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• The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Change, Smart, Great Person

  "Cody Wilson Wants To Destroy Your World" by Andrew Zaleski, www.wired.com. March 11, 2015.

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• Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Night, Journey, Time Zones

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.196, Verso

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• The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Essence, Becoming, Use

  Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Broken Heart, Stars

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• Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Destruction, Renovation, Reconstruction

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.171, Verso

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• It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Birthday, Fake People, Believe

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.215, Verso

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• One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Fate, Pleasure, Malicious

  Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner (1996). “Cool Memories II, 1987-1990”, Duke University Press Books

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• If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Love, Life, Break Up

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.153, Verso

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• The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Media, Squinting, Inability

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• Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Destiny, Arbitrary, Alive

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• The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. The country is without hope. What is arresting here is ... both the absence of architecture in the cities and the dizzying absence of emotion and character in the faces and bodies.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Country, Character, Past

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• Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, Math, Wish

  Cool Memories Chapter 4

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• Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Life, Death, Believe

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.67, Verso

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• There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Revenge

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.48, Verso

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• Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

  Jean Baudrillard

  World, Meaning Of Life, Killing

  The Ecstasy of Communication "Seduction, or the Superficial Abyss" (1987)

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• We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Nostalgia, Terrorism, Slave

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• 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

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• Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Driving, Genocide, Form

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.9, Verso

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• It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Events, Enough, Theory

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• Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Depression, Power, Light

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.138, Verso

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• If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.223, Stanford University Press

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• Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Character, Power, Men

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• Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Reality, Opposites, Giving

  "America" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, (p. 95), 1988.

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