The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAt 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.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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