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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIf you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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 BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDI hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDLike dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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 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 BAUDRILLARDThis sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDEverything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDOnly facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDeep 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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