It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDTelevision knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDCowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSanta 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 BAUDRILLARDLike dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThis sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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 BAUDRILLARDEverything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDA negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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.
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