You are born modern, you do not become so.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDYou are born modern, you do not become so.
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.
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 BAUDRILLARDLike dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDA negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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 BAUDRILLARDIt only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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 BAUDRILLARDPerhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhat is a society without a heroic dimension?
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