Baudrillard Warned Us
@baudrillardwarned.us
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.
"The artificial purification of all milieus, atmostpheres, and environments will supplant the failing internal immune systems."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 12, 2026 at 11:11 AM
"The artificial purification of all milieus, atmostpheres, and environments will supplant the failing internal immune systems."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Has it passed into the unconscious, into the repressed of psychoanalysis?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 12, 2026 at 10:41 AM
"Has it passed into the unconscious, into the repressed of psychoanalysis?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"It is the one we have learned to analyze and that is familiar to us: that which traces the paths of the social and which leads to the saturation of the whole field of the social."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 12, 2026 at 10:11 AM
"It is the one we have learned to analyze and that is familiar to us: that which traces the paths of the social and which leads to the saturation of the whole field of the social."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"This having been established, there are no more individuals, but only potential mutants."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 12, 2026 at 9:41 AM
"This having been established, there are no more individuals, but only potential mutants."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Deterritorialization is no longer exile at all, and it is no more a metaphoric figure, it is a figure of metastasis; a deprivation of meaning and territory, lobotomy of the body resulting from the turmoil of the circuits.12 Electrocuted, lobotomized, the soul has ..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 12, 2026 at 9:11 AM
"Deterritorialization is no longer exile at all, and it is no more a metaphoric figure, it is a figure of metastasis; a deprivation of meaning and territory, lobotomy of the body resulting from the turmoil of the circuits.12 Electrocuted, lobotomized, the soul has ..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Can there be a more beautiful parody of our ideologies of liberty than this passion for rules?Is there a better parody of "sociality" itself than that found in Borges' fable, "The Lottery in Babylon," with its inescapable and fateful logic and its simulation of the social by the game?"
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 12, 2026 at 8:41 AM
"Can there be a more beautiful parody of our ideologies of liberty than this passion for rules?Is there a better parody of "sociality" itself than that found in Borges' fable, "The Lottery in Babylon," with its inescapable and fateful logic and its simulation of the social by the game?"
- Seduction
- Seduction
"That is the pleasure of fishes.'"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 12, 2026 at 8:11 AM
"That is the pleasure of fishes.'"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"One invites the masses to participate, to simulate, to play with the models - they go one better: they participate and manipulate so well that they efface all the meaning one wants to give to the operation and put the very infrastructure of the edifice in danger."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 12, 2026 at 7:41 AM
"One invites the masses to participate, to simulate, to play with the models - they go one better: they participate and manipulate so well that they efface all the meaning one wants to give to the operation and put the very infrastructure of the edifice in danger."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Whereas so many generations, and particularly the last, lived in the march of history, in the euphoric or catastrophic expectation of a revolution - today one has the impression that history has retreated, leaving behind it an indifferent nebula, traversed by currents..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
January 12, 2026 at 7:11 AM
"Whereas so many generations, and particularly the last, lived in the march of history, in the euphoric or catastrophic expectation of a revolution - today one has the impression that history has retreated, leaving behind it an indifferent nebula, traversed by currents..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Our private sphere has ceased to be the stage where the drama of the subject at odds with his objects and with his image is played out: we no longer exist as playwrights or actors but as terminals of multiple networks."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 12, 2026 at 6:41 AM
"Our private sphere has ceased to be the stage where the drama of the subject at odds with his objects and with his image is played out: we no longer exist as playwrights or actors but as terminals of multiple networks."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Henceforth women will climax, and will know why."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 12, 2026 at 6:11 AM
"Henceforth women will climax, and will know why."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"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
- The Perfect Crime
January 12, 2026 at 5:41 AM
"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
- The Perfect Crime
"Fascination is this disembodied passion of a gaze without an object, of a gaze without an image."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 12, 2026 at 5:11 AM
"Fascination is this disembodied passion of a gaze without an object, of a gaze without an image."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"The reverse strategy of the entire modern movement is the "liberation" of meaning and the destruction of appearances."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 12, 2026 at 4:41 AM
"The reverse strategy of the entire modern movement is the "liberation" of meaning and the destruction of appearances."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Nudity is but a desperate attempt to emphasize the existence of something."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 12, 2026 at 4:11 AM
"Nudity is but a desperate attempt to emphasize the existence of something."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"There is no official, intermediary time for the sign and its decipherment; it is not a matter of believing, doing, wanting, or knowing."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 12, 2026 at 3:41 AM
"There is no official, intermediary time for the sign and its decipherment; it is not a matter of believing, doing, wanting, or knowing."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"It is with a metamorphosis that we shroud every seduction; it is with a ceremonial that we shroud every metamorphosis."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 12, 2026 at 3:11 AM
"It is with a metamorphosis that we shroud every seduction; it is with a ceremonial that we shroud every metamorphosis."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"It would be contiguous with the theater, or with makeup, the ritual and burlesque ostentation of a sex whose own pleasure is absent."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 12, 2026 at 2:41 AM
"It would be contiguous with the theater, or with makeup, the ritual and burlesque ostentation of a sex whose own pleasure is absent."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"A double challenge: the con man challenges the sucker and the latter challenges fate."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 12, 2026 at 2:11 AM
"A double challenge: the con man challenges the sucker and the latter challenges fate."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The evil forces which it has raised against God, against morality, the forces of artifice and the Evil Demon of dissimulation and absence, of challenge and reversion, which it has always embodied and for which it has been damned: seduction can today reinvent these..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 12, 2026 at 1:41 AM
"The evil forces which it has raised against God, against morality, the forces of artifice and the Evil Demon of dissimulation and absence, of challenge and reversion, which it has always embodied and for which it has been damned: seduction can today reinvent these..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"They embrace the other's presence so fully that they no longer know the limits of their own."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 12, 2026 at 1:11 AM
"They embrace the other's presence so fully that they no longer know the limits of their own."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"The passport is there, but at what is, in the passport's terms, the right place, there is nothing."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 12, 2026 at 12:41 AM
"The passport is there, but at what is, in the passport's terms, the right place, there is nothing."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"And because there is no limit to, the challenge to love more than one is loved, or to be always more seduced - if not death."
- Seduction
- Seduction
January 12, 2026 at 12:11 AM
"And because there is no limit to, the challenge to love more than one is loved, or to be always more seduced - if not death."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"They each follow their course without merging; at best they slide over each other like tectonic plates, and occasionally their collision or subduction creates fault lines into which reality rushes."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
January 11, 2026 at 11:41 PM
"They each follow their course without merging; at best they slide over each other like tectonic plates, and occasionally their collision or subduction creates fault lines into which reality rushes."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"What is in question here is not a thing kept secret, for this only overstimulates the will to knowledge, and always appears in the semblance of a truth."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
January 11, 2026 at 11:11 PM
"What is in question here is not a thing kept secret, for this only overstimulates the will to knowledge, and always appears in the semblance of a truth."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication