Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise. Jean Baudrillard More Quotes by Jean Baudrillard More Quotes From Jean Baudrillard We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. Jean Baudrillard information-overloadtoo-much-informationworld Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals. Jean Baudrillard qualitydepthculture Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible. Jean Baudrillard simulacrumillusionreal What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself. Jean Baudrillard simulacrumknows Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning. Jean Baudrillard generationsbeing-thereworld Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination. Jean Baudrillard renovationreconstructiondestruction Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much. Jean Baudrillard too-muchdoeart Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real. Jean Baudrillard realorderbelieve The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process. Jean Baudrillard becomingessenceuse History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. Jean Baudrillard farcerepeatsturns The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true. Jean Baudrillard simulacrum Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile. Jean Baudrillard smileshiningprofound When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. Jean Baudrillard assumingnostalgiareal [I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored. Jean Baudrillard computerboredmen Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization. Jean Baudrillard terrorismnihilismtoday Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food. Jean Baudrillard animalfoodinspirational The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. Jean Baudrillard computerhumorfunny We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. Jean Baudrillard foundationgreatnessnegative It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. Jean Baudrillard asksforceidentity It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. Jean Baudrillard eventstheoryenough
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