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Baudrillard Warned Us
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quotes from the works of Jean Baudrillard Repurposed twitter bot from years ago. Texts scraped with regex and bad pdf2text extraction. Currently includes Seduction, Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, and The Ecstasy of Communication.
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 13m
"Only the privileged, those elevated by the social contract, or by their social status - itself only a simulacrum, and one without even the value of a destiny - can judge such aleatory practices as worthless when they are quite superior to their own."
- Seduction
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 43m
"There has always been confusion between the distinctive sign and the discursive sign, the one of linguistics, and the other sign, the mark (le trait)."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 1h
"The genitalia is but a special effect."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 1h
"It is also that of information or of the political in which nothing takes place and by which we are nonetheless saturated."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 2h
"And nothing today is less certain than desire, behind the proliferation of its images."
- Seduction
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 2h
"The fascination she exercises is that of a mythical figure, an enigmatic partner, a protagonist equal to the seducer in this almost liturgical realm of challenge and duel."
- Seduction
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 3h
"We are no longer in anomie, but in anomaly."
- The Perfect Crime
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 3h
"The game was already won, nothing was objectively at stake but the verisimilitude of the final montage."
- Simulacra and Simulation
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 4h
"Where too, it follows, there was no repression, this thematic with which we have burdened all previous societies even more than our own."
- Seduction
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 4h
"Power can stage its own murder to rediscover a glimmer of existence and legitimacy."
- Simulacra and Simulation
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 5h
"Isn't this the fulfillment of a destiny?"
- Seduction
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 5h
"It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 6h
"In the same way, Americans flatter themselves for having brought the population of Indians back to pre-Conquest levels."
- Simulacra and Simulation
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 6h
"Thus, Henri Laborit refuses the interpretation of territory in terms of instinct or private property: "One has never brought forth as evidence, either in the hypothalamus or elsewhere, either a cellular group or neural pathways that are differentiated in relation to t..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 7h
"The imaginary was the alibi of the real, in a world dominated by the reality principle."
- Simulacra and Simulation
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 7h
"More subtly, it wreaks vengeance on those who deny it by paradoxically proving them right."
- The Perfect Crime
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 8h
": "The territory thus becomes the space necessary to the realization of the act of bestowing, the vital space..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 8h
"An unlimited possibility of substitution, of concatenation without reference."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 9h
"That of the image, but also of time (Real Time), of music (High Fidelity), of sex (pornography), of thought (Artificial Intelligence), of language (digital languages), of the body (the genetic code and the genome)."
- The Perfect Crime
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 9h
"For that existence is merely an inflatable structure, similar to Ubu's belly, which distends into the void and ends up exploding like the Palotins."
- The Perfect Crime
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 10h
"This narcissism, whose source is no longer a mirror but a formula, is a monstrous parody of the myth of Narcissus."
- Seduction
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 10h
"The Rule plays on an immanent sequence of arbitrary signs, while the Law is based on a transcendent sequence of necessary signs."
- Seduction
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 11h
"Language is merely the involuntary accomplice of communication -- by its very form it appeals to the spiritual and material imagination of sounds and rhythm, to the dispersal of meaning in the event of language."
- The Perfect Crime
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 11h
"It is this positivism that must not be taken at face value; and it is to this reversion of power in simulation one must devote one's efforts."
- Seduction
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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 12h
"What new scene can unfold, where nothing and death could be replayed as a challenge, as a stake?"
- Simulacra and Simulation
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