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Jean Baudrillard

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Never 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 Baudrillard


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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.


— Jean Baudrillard


#disneyland #just #may #monotonous #mournful

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.


— Jean Baudrillard


#desperation #facing #get #help #only

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.


— Jean Baudrillard


#behind #cat #departed #god #grin

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.


— Jean Baudrillard


#artifice #artificial #artificial intelligence #intelligence #lacks

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.


— Jean Baudrillard


#innocence #like

What is a society without a heroic dimension?


— Jean Baudrillard


#heroic #society #without

The 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 Baudrillard


#antagonism #dialectical #equilibrium #evil #extremes

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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