Jean Baudrillard Quotes
- One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will remain attached to our seats. - View Quote Details on One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will…
- It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image. - View Quote Details on It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as…
- Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. - View Quote Details on Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone…
- There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. - View Quote Details on There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
- THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING TO PRO-DUCE. In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret. (p. 65) - View Quote Details on THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING TO PRO-DUCE. In spite of all…
- This realistic image, however, does not catch at all what really is, but what should not be - death and misery - what should not exist, from our moral and humanistic point of view. And at the same time making an aesthetic and commercial, perfectly immoral use and abuse of this misery. Images that actually testify, behind their pretended “objectivity”, of a deep denial of the real, and of an equal denial of the image - assigned to present what does not even want to be represented, assigned to the rape of the real by burglary. - View Quote Details on This realistic image, however, does not catch at all what…
- Dying is nothing. You have to know how to disappear. Dying comes down to a biological chance and that is of no consequence. Disappearing is of a far higher order of necessity. You must not leave it to biology to decide when you will disappear. To disappear is to pass into an enigmatic state which is neither life nor death. Some animals know how to do this, as do savages, who withdraw while still alive, from the sight of their own people. - View Quote Details on Dying is nothing. You have to know how to disappear…
- The discourse of truth is quite simply impossible. It eludes itself. Everything eludes itself, everything scoffs at its own truth, seduction renders everything elusive. The fury to unveil the truth, to get at the naked truth, the one which haunts all discourses of interpretation, the obscene rage to uncover the secret, is proportionate to the impossibility of ever achieving this. …But this rage, this fury, only bears witness to the eternity of seduction and to the impossibility of mastering it. (p. 73) - View Quote Details on The discourse of truth is quite simply impossible. It eludes…
- Seduction is the world’s elementary dynamic… All this has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance. For what has happened to good and evil? Seduction hurls them against one another, and unites them beyond meaning, in a paroxysm [sudden outbreak of emotion] of intensity and charm. (p. 59) - View Quote Details on Seduction is the world’s elementary dynamic… All this has changed…
- The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value. (p. 43) - View Quote Details on The close-up of a face is as obscene as a…
- There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea. - View Quote Details on There are only a few images that are not forced…
- If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object’s own self-fulfillment. ( essay -”Radical Thought”) - View Quote Details on If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it…
- Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. (p. 57) - View Quote Details on Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction…
- The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. (p. 30) - View Quote Details on The need to speak, even if one has nothing to…
- The only thing worse than being bored is being boring. - View Quote Details on The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.
- So-called “realist” photography does not capture the “what is.” Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example. - View Quote Details on So-called “realist” photography does not capture the “what is.” Instead,…
- Particularly in the case of all professional of press-images which testify of the real events. In making reality, even the most violent, emerge to the visible, it makes the real substance disappear. It is like the Myth of Eurydice : when Orpheus turns around to look at her, she vanishes and returns to hell. That is why, the more exponential the marketing of images is growing the more fantastically grows the indifference towards the real world. Finally, the real world becomes a useless function, a collection of phantom shapes and ghost events. We are not far from the silhouettes on the walls of the cave of Plato. - View Quote Details on Particularly in the case of all professional of press-images which…
- One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real. ( essay -”Radical Thought”) - View Quote Details on One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into…
- Not only does reality resist those who still criticize it, but it also abandons those who defend it. Maybe it is a way for reality to get its revenge from those who claim to believe in it for the sole purpose of eventually transforming it: sending back its supporters to their own desires. ( essay -”Radical Thought”) - View Quote Details on Not only does reality resist those who still criticize it,…
- Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the “good use” of the social! - View Quote Details on Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one…
- For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models. - View Quote Details on For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators…
About Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (1929-06-20 - 2007-03-06 ) was a cultural theorist and philosopher. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.
Please Leave a Comment: