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.
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.
"Hence on the basis of an irrevocable illusion."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"Hence on the basis of an irrevocable illusion."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"But it is the same with any object which reaches us only in a definitively alter-ed state, even when it does so on the screen of science, in the mirrors of information or on the screens of our brains."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"But it is the same with any object which reaches us only in a definitively alter-ed state, even when it does so on the screen of science, in the mirrors of information or on the screens of our brains."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Nothing more errant, more nomadic in appearance than animals, and yet their law is that of the territory."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
"Nothing more errant, more nomadic in appearance than animals, and yet their law is that of the territory."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"I will summon the Gods to respond or else to disappear" - and reducing the Gods to nothing is always a source of pleasure."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 AM
"I will summon the Gods to respond or else to disappear" - and reducing the Gods to nothing is always a source of pleasure."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"All hypotheses are possible, but this one is superfluous: the Left itself does a perfectly good job, and spontaneously, of doing the work of the Right."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
"All hypotheses are possible, but this one is superfluous: the Left itself does a perfectly good job, and spontaneously, of doing the work of the Right."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"It is that of a superficial, artificial object which succeeds in preserving its artificiality, in shaking free of any natural signification to take on a spectral intensity, empty of meaning, which is that of the fetish."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
"It is that of a superficial, artificial object which succeeds in preserving its artificiality, in shaking free of any natural signification to take on a spectral intensity, empty of meaning, which is that of the fetish."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"It becomes more complicated because this family fell apart during the filming: a crisis erupted, the Louds separated, etc."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
"It becomes more complicated because this family fell apart during the filming: a crisis erupted, the Louds separated, etc."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Watergate was thus nothing but a lure held out by the system to catch its adversaries - a simulation of scandal for regenerative ends."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
"Watergate was thus nothing but a lure held out by the system to catch its adversaries - a simulation of scandal for regenerative ends."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"No one knows."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"No one knows."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"And why should we decipher it instead of letting its illusion shine out as such, in all its glory?"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"And why should we decipher it instead of letting its illusion shine out as such, in all its glory?"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Seeing, deciphering, learning does not touch them."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
"Seeing, deciphering, learning does not touch them."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"One need only carry this analysis to its full potential to grasp what has happened to transparence and the obscenity of the universe of communication, which have long surpassed the obscenities still relative to the universe of the commodity."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
"One need only carry this analysis to its full potential to grasp what has happened to transparence and the obscenity of the universe of communication, which have long surpassed the obscenities still relative to the universe of the commodity."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"One might imagine (but why imagine it, when it occured in ancient Greece) that gods and mortals, instead of being separated by the moral abyss of religion, sought to seduce each other and, indeed, maintained no other relations but those of seduction."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"One might imagine (but why imagine it, when it occured in ancient Greece) that gods and mortals, instead of being separated by the moral abyss of religion, sought to seduce each other and, indeed, maintained no other relations but those of seduction."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Today the exorcism is more violent and systematic."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
"Today the exorcism is more violent and systematic."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"This is another ritual of transparency."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"This is another ritual of transparency."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"It forcefully controls all the procedures for the production of meaning."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"It forcefully controls all the procedures for the production of meaning."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"The seducer by himself is nothing; the seduction originates entirely with the girl."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"The seducer by himself is nothing; the seduction originates entirely with the girl."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Such is the law: every being, every thing must jealously guard its meaning and dismiss appearances as a malefaction."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
"Such is the law: every being, every thing must jealously guard its meaning and dismiss appearances as a malefaction."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"One could almost say that through a technical excess of good will they are asexual, like porn images."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
"One could almost say that through a technical excess of good will they are asexual, like porn images."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"It is a "bit," the smallest unit of electronic impulse - no longer a unit of meaning, but an identificatory pulse."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
"It is a "bit," the smallest unit of electronic impulse - no longer a unit of meaning, but an identificatory pulse."
- Seduction
- Seduction
""There is another type of violence, which has neither its name nor outward appearance, but which is no less dangerous."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
""There is another type of violence, which has neither its name nor outward appearance, but which is no less dangerous."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Hypotyposis and specularity."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"Hypotyposis and specularity."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"They merely have the same destination."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"They merely have the same destination."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Work over the illusion."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Work over the illusion."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"This is a microscopic pornography, pornographic because it is forced, exaggerated, just like the close-up of sexual acts in a porno film."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"This is a microscopic pornography, pornographic because it is forced, exaggerated, just like the close-up of sexual acts in a porno film."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication