Smile and others will smile back. Jean Baudrillard More Quotes by Jean Baudrillard More Quotes From Jean Baudrillard What is a society without a heroic dimension? Jean Baudrillard heroism dimensions hero One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires. Jean Baudrillard tired speak desire A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. Jean Baudrillard jealousy judging giving The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin. Jean Baudrillard cat god order All societies end up wearing masks. Jean Baudrillard wearing-a-mask mask ends If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. Jean Baudrillard break-up love life 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. Jean Baudrillard government mean commitment The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard. Jean Baudrillard sunset stars taken The secret of theory is that truth does not exist. Jean Baudrillard theory secret doe It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality. Jean Baudrillard pride order reality This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not really clear in the end whether this 'cool' smile is the smile of humour or that of commercial complicity. This is also the case with pop, and its smile ultimately encapsulates all its ambiguity: it is not the smile of critical distance, but the smile of collusion Jean Baudrillard spy distance use The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world. Jean Baudrillard space military war A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead. Jean Baudrillard events mouths men If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another --cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects. Jean Baudrillard play children hands Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. Jean Baudrillard imagination giving reality We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage. Jean Baudrillard passion imagination love The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty. Jean Baudrillard love long thinking Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them. Jean Baudrillard decision running talking the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness. Jean Baudrillard emptiness machines design Power floats like money, like language, like theory. Jean Baudrillard floats language theory
