At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt 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.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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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.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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.
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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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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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.
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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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.
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