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.
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.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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The 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.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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To 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.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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.
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