Quotes by Jean Baudrillard

About Jean Baudrillard:

Jean Baudrillard is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays cosily tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly...

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This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial comp...

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We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only d...

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…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing a mountain, making some sexual conquest, committing suicide. The marathon is a form of demonstrative suicide, suicide as adve...

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It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the ...

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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

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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.

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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

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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.

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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

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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.

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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.

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The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

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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.

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

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Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

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Author Bio

  • NameJean Baudrillard
  • DescriptionFrench sociologist and philosopher
  • BornJuly 20, 1929
  • DiedMarch 6, 2007
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Photographer; Translator; Sociologist