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Jean Baudrillard

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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.


— Jean Baudrillard


#may #teeth #wonderful

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.


— Jean Baudrillard


#society #age

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 Baudrillard


#break #break up #fallen #form #i

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.


— Jean Baudrillard


#ahead #blockhead #great #great person #make

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.


— Jean Baudrillard


#bore #boredom #crime #first #perhaps

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.


— Jean Baudrillard


#form #fulfillment #like #statistics #wish

Governing 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 Baudrillard


#achieved #advertising #commitment #credibility #effect

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.


— Jean Baudrillard


#courage #cowardice #feelings #love #measure

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.


— Jean Baudrillard


#ask #forced #liberated #once #same

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.


— Jean Baudrillard


#adult #children #demand #festival #funny






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Simulacra and Simulation

As he developed his work throughout the 1980s he moved from economically based theory to the consideration of mediation and mass communications. But the focus on the difference between sign value (which relates to commodity exchange) and symbolic value (which relates to Maussian gift exchange) remained in his work up until his death. Life
Baudrillard was born in Reims northeastern France on July 27 1929.

His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.

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