Quotes by
Jean Baudrillard |
1929-2007 , French intellectual
French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism. | 19 quotes | 1,908 visits |
Quotations
| • | At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. 8 |
| • | Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. 7 |
| • | It only takes a politician believing in what he says for others to stop believing in him. 6 |
| • | A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. 6 |
| • | You are born modern, you do not become so. 5 |
| • | The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. 5 |
| • | Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. 4 |
| • | At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance. 4 |
| • | Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. 4 |
| • | It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. 4 |
| • | The superiority of Western culture is sustained only by the desire of the rest of the world to join it. 4 |
| • | There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. 4 |
| • | Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved: commitment to a scenario. 4 |
| • | We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. 4 |
| • | The world has become so real that this reality is only bearable at the expense of perpetual denial. “This is not a world,” after “this is not a pipe.” 3 |
| • | Absolute depth knows neither good nor evil. Thus the intelligence of evil goes far beyond pessimism. 3 |
| • | Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. 3 |
| • | What is a society without a heroic dimension? 3 |
| • | Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. 3 |
