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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThis 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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDTo 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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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 BAUDRILLARDNever 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 BAUDRILLARDEverything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDGoverning today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhen you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIn 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.
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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDOnly facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDCowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD