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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baudrillardwarned.us
"Take provocation, for instance, which is the opposite and the caricature of seduction."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
baudrillardwarned.us
"the moment of seduction."
- Seduction
baudrillardwarned.us
"The secret is never revealed, never communicated, never even "secreted" (Zempleny, Nouvelle Revue de Psychanalyse, #14)."
- Seduction
baudrillardwarned.us
"Out of a defiance of the natural order and for the glory of artifice?"
- The Perfect Crime
baudrillardwarned.us
"The Countdown Reality and the real world will have lasted only for a certain time, then."
- The Perfect Crime
baudrillardwarned.us
"It is directly descended from a metaphysics that supposes the phantasy of a hidden truth and its revelation, the phantasy of "repressed" energy and its production - on the obscene scene of the real."
- Seduction
baudrillardwarned.us
"Men qualify only by their affiliation to the animal: the Bororos "are" macaws."
- Simulacra and Simulation
baudrillardwarned.us
"In front of him, their expressions equally vacant, the family of four mannequins sat in their vehicle."
- Simulacra and Simulation
baudrillardwarned.us
"A sociality everywhere present, an absolute sociality finally realized in absolute advertising - that is to say, also totally dissolved, a vestige of sociality hallucinated on all the walls in the simplified form of a demand of the social that is immediately met by t..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
baudrillardwarned.us
"Enough of these scientific jests."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
baudrillardwarned.us
"But which universe is this one?"
- Simulacra and Simulation
baudrillardwarned.us
"This truth then becomes a secret that escapes him/her (Vincent Descombes: L'inconscient malgre lua)."
- Seduction
baudrillardwarned.us
"Thus, in the ancient cosmogony, the elements of water, earth, fire and air were not the distinctive elements of a system of classification, but attracting elements, seducing one another: water seduced by fire, fire seducing water."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
baudrillardwarned.us
"Even the most anti-seductive figures can become figures of seduction."
- Seduction
baudrillardwarned.us
"The continuity of female sexuality, as opposed to male intermittency, is enough to ensure its superiority at the level of the organic representation of sexual pleasure, the representation of endless sex that has come to dominate our fantasies."
- Seduction
baudrillardwarned.us
"To each his own bubble; that is the law today."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
baudrillardwarned.us
"In this sense, one might say that they have all become discourses of seduction, discourses that register an explicit demand for seduction, but a soft seduction, whose weakened condition has become synonymous withso much else in this society - the ambience, the manipulation, the pers..."
- Seduction
baudrillardwarned.us
"Witness this two-bedroom/kitchen/shower put into orbit, raised to a spatial power (one could say) with the most recent lunar module."
- Simulacra and Simulation
baudrillardwarned.us
"The whole of our history bears witness to this machinery of reason, which is itself now coming apart."
- The Perfect Crime
baudrillardwarned.us
"Beyond the conventional idealism of the strip-tease (perhaps there might even be some seduction here), pornography at its most sublime reverses itself into a purified obscenity, an obscenity that is purer, deeper, more visceral."
- Seduction
baudrillardwarned.us
"Thus, in the Flüchtlingsgespräche, it is also said that though the beer isn't a beer, though the cigar isn't a cigar, though the man is no longer a man, the passport, for its part, still remains a passport."
- The Perfect Crime
baudrillardwarned.us
"But in fact there is nothing."
- The Perfect Crime
baudrillardwarned.us
"Precisely because there is nothing to see, people approach, lean over and flair out this hallucinating hyper-resemblance, haunting in its friendliness."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
baudrillardwarned.us
"Fascination is this disembodied passion of a gaze without an object, of a gaze without an image."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
baudrillardwarned.us
"Very High Definition, with its ambition of producing images, sounds, information, bodies in microvision, in stereoscopy, as you have never seen them before, as you will never see them, is unrealizable."
- The Perfect Crime