Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDOnly facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDSeduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDA negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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 BAUDRILLARDDeep 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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDCowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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 BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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 BAUDRILLARDThere exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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.
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