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 BAUDRILLARDOnly facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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