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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 · 23m

"In the same way, with the pretext of saving the original, one forbade visitors to enter the Lascaux caves, but an exact replica was constructed five hundred meters from it, so that everyone could see them (one glances through a peephole at the authentic cave, and then..."
- Simulacra and Simulation

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 52m

"All that remains are miniaturized, concentrated and immediately available effects."
- The Ecstasy of Communication

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 1h

"Animals have never wandered, were never deterritorialized."
- Simulacra and Simulation

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 1h

"Indeed, it must pay for this fabulous capacity by renouncing desire, sex and reproduction."
- The Ecstasy of Communication

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 2h

"They use the raw material and the machine to remake art."
- The Perfect Crime

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 2h

"The theory of the unconscious supposes that certain affects, scenes or signifiers can no longer be put into play, that they are foreclosed, outside-the-game."
- Seduction

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 3h

"When one sees Las Vegas rise whole from the desert in the radiance of advertising at dusk, and return to the desert when dawn breaks, one sees that advertising is not what brightens or decorates the walls, it is what effaces the walls, effaces the streets, the facade..."
- Simulacra and Simulation

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 3h

"They may again become collective values, as one can see in the rebuilding of the new rituals surrounding them; the rituals of transparency."
- The Ecstasy of Communication

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 4h

"Has it passed into the unconscious, into the repressed of psychoanalysis?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 4h

"He says: God exists (perhaps), but I don't believe in him."
- The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 5h

"An about-face through which it becomes impossible to locate one instance of the model, of power, of the gaze, of the medium itself, because you are always already on the other side."
- Simulacra and Simulation

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 5h

"There is merely a movement of the exacerbation of reality towards paroxysm, where it involutes of its own accord and implodes leaving no trace, not even the sign of its end."
- The Perfect Crime

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 6h

"We came very close to the perfect crime with the Tower of Babel."
- The Perfect Crime

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 6h

"For the microscopic world is to be accepted as it is."
- The Perfect Crime

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 7h

"As a result, each existence becomes singular, incomparable and free of logical determination."
- The Perfect Crime

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 7h

"Death no longer has a stage, neither phantasmatic nor political, on which to represent itself, to play itself out, either a ceremonial or a violent one."
- Simulacra and Simulation

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 8h

"But they are also, one knows, "metaphors" of the soul, of breath, of Being, of essence, of what profoundly gives meaning to the subject."
- Simulacra and Simulation

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 8h

"It is only the eclipsing of anti-matter that puts an end to maximal density and energy, in favour of the minimal energy of reality."
- The Perfect Crime

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 9h

"Cut off from the rest of the structure, without windows, literally without space - here space is, actualized by simulation."
- Seduction

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 9h

"That they have equipped themselves with a number of functional gremlins, electronic viruses and other negative side-effects which protect them from perfection and spare them, in their turn, from pushing to their limits."
- The Perfect Crime

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 10h

"One thing is for certain: if the scene seduced us, the obscene fascinates us."
- The Ecstasy of Communication

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 10h

"Perhaps a still more convincing example would be that of Ballard and of his evolution from the first very "phantasmagoric" short stories, poetic, dreamlike, disorienting, up to Crash, which is without a doubt (more than IGH or Concrete Island) the current model of thi..."
- Simulacra and Simulation

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 11h

"The word is free, but I am not; the space is so saturated, the pressure of all which wants to be heard so strong that I am no longer capable of knowing what I want."
- The Ecstasy of Communication

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 11h

"The seducer is playing with himself."
- Seduction

Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 12h

"The system puts an end one by one to all its axioms, to all its institutions, and realizes one by one all the objectives of the historical and revolutionary Left that sees itself constrained to revive the wheels of capital in order to lay seige to them one day: from p..."
- Simulacra and Simulation