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Jean Baudrillard Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“It is impossible to point out stupidity without it pointing back at you.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories IV: 1995 - 2000
Tagged: Dealing With Ignorance
“With truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
Tagged: Epistemology, Truth
“Our task is clear: we must make that world even more unintelligible, even more enigmatic.”
— Jean Baudrillard, The Vital Illusion
Tagged: The Clearing
“Blindly we dream of overcoming death through immortality, when all the time immortality is the most horrific of possible fates.”
— Jean Baudrillard, The Vital Illusion
Tagged: Death, Living Forever Is Not So Great, Being A Vampire Sucks
“Just selling products doesn't interest us. We want to put a bit of grey matter in there too.”
— Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures
Tagged: Grey Capital, Beyond Capitalism Is Capitalism, Capitalize The Anti-Capital
“Beware of the treacheries of language. Stereotyped political language generally says the opposite of what it is thinking.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990
Tagged: Rhetoric, Secret Codes of Language, Political Discussion, Language, Holes of Talking
“How a woman can once again become violently desirable after you have broken up remains a mystery. Some, perhaps, have the same sense of retrospective admiration of their own bodies at the moment of leaving them.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990
Tagged: Death, Loss, Breaking Up
“It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done it yourself. You feel no intellectual jealously at seeing yourself outstripped in this way. ”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
Tagged: Quotes
“In writing, the most enthralling moment is that of condensation, ellipsis, rarefaction. Building up increasingly dense nuclei around which light is disoriented, and thought too, since it lost the sense of its origin.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990
Tagged: Against Decoration, Writing
“ The privilege of art in itself as art in itself has disappeared, so art is not what it thinks it is.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Baudrillard on Tour
“Since the media always make you out to say the opposite of what you say, you should have the courage always to say that opposite of what you think.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990
Tagged: Media Manipulation, Lie to the Media Because They Will Lie About You
“God exists, but I don't believe in him. God himself doesn't believe in Him, according to the tradition. That would be a weakness. ”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990
Tagged: God, Theology, Belief is Lame, Ideology Is Lame, Hebrew Tradition
“The Real as such implies an origin, an end, a past and a future, a chain of causes and effects, a continuity and a rationality. No real without these elements, without an objective configuration of discourse. And its disappearing is the dislocation of this whole constellation.”
— Jean Baudrillard, The Vital Illusion
Tagged: The Structure Of Reality, We Have No Focal Point
“Liquid crystal or the oceanography of concepts. ”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990
Tagged: Concepts, Moving Space, Liquid Prose
“The synthesis of profusion and calculation is the drugstore.”
— Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society
Tagged: Capitalism, What Are Drugstores?, The Oddness of Capitalism
“There is no poverty and no wealth. There is merely an impoverished definition of wealth — in terms of economics and calculation. Unfortunately, the entire world’s poor have signed up to this definition which makes them poor to the second degree.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories IV: 1995 - 2000
Tagged: Wealth, Poverty, Reality Construction, Third World, Illusion of Captial
“The Iron Curtain has been supplanted by a mental glass curtain. The Berlin wall has been supplanted by the invisible wall, the unrelenting wall of the interface and transparency which, unlike the other, lets everything through, transfuses all light, relentlessly illuminates every nook and cranny, even by night, with infra-red.”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990
Tagged: Mental Glass Curtain, Berlin Wall, The Sunlight Project, Transparency, The Ironclad Web, Totalitarian Brightness
“As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveller is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats. ”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
Tagged: Corporate Living, Freedom
“If we discover that not everything can be cloned, simulated, programmed, genetically and neurologically managed, then whatever survives could truly be called 'human': some inalienable and indestructible human quality could finally be identified. Of course, there is always the risk, in this experimental adventure, that nothing will pass the test—that the human will be permanently eradicated.”
— Jean Baudrillard, The Vital Illusion
Tagged: Progress, Science
“Socialism comes to power, paradoxically, when all compulsive energy to go beyond oneself, all social energies of rupture, all alternative cultural energies have more or less been exhausted — and it carries the sigmas of this exhaustion, and profits by it. If it sets itself up without resistance, it's not so much that it has won over the Right, it's because the entire space before it has been emptied by the reflux of vital forces.”
— Jean Baudrillard, The Divine Left
Tagged: Socialism
“Communism had succeeded in wresting entire generations away from the work ethic, in killing in them the slightest desire to produce, in making them lazy. This historical scandal is coming to an end. The whole of Europe is going to work in concert. But the question still remains: shouldn't we have preferred a certain enforced idleness, linked to voluntary servitude, a certain aboulic and apathetic ethos to our frenzied go-getting utopia? To our suspect feverishness? Which will win out in the long term, enforced idleness or frenzied activism? ”
— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories II: 1987-1990
Tagged: Socialism, Capitalism, The Long Yawn of History, Who Do You Serve?, Work Ethic
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