Jean Baudrillard

Miško Šuvaković: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-18T17:47:23.0001Z

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Jean Baudrillard: Marcel Mauss

2008-07-18T01:06:05.0001Z

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Jean Baudrillard: Georg Lukács

2008-07-18T01:06:05.0000Z

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Jean Baudrillard: Walter Benjamin

2008-07-18T01:06:04.0002Z

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Jean Baudrillard: Roland Barthes

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Jean Baudrillard: Sigmund Freud

2008-07-18T01:06:04.0000Z

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Jean Baudrillard: Marshall McLuhan

2008-07-18T01:06:03.0003Z

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Jean Baudrillard: Karl Marx

2008-07-18T01:06:03.0000Z

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Slavoj Žižek: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-18T01:06:02.0002Z

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The Wachowski brothers: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-18T01:06:02.0001Z

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Jean Baudrillard: Georges Bataille

2008-07-18T01:04:32.0005Z

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Jean Baudrillard: Claude Lévi-Strauss

2008-07-18T00:46:12.0003Z

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0146Z

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quotationsbook inserted: It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0145Z

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quotationsbook inserted: Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0144Z

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0143Z

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quotationsbook inserted: Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0142Z

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quotationsbook inserted: Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The marketing immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

Genius is childhood recaptured.: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0141Z

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quotationsbook inserted: Genius is childhood recaptured. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0140Z

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quotationsbook inserted: We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0139Z

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quotationsbook inserted: The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0138Z

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0137Z

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quotationsbook inserted: Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0136Z

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quotationsbook inserted: A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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.: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0135Z

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0133Z

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0131Z

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quotationsbook inserted: Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0130Z

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quotationsbook inserted: The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in --telephonic, technological and relational --to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in --telephonic, technological and relational --to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

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quotationsbook inserted: The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.: Jean Baudrillard

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quotationsbook inserted: We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.: Jean Baudrillard

2008-07-02T20:57:33.0110Z

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quotationsbook inserted: Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void. --Quotation: Author--> Jean Baudrillard