The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others. 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-overload too-much-information world 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 quality depth culture Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible. Jean Baudrillard simulacrum illusion real What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself. Jean Baudrillard simulacrum knows 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 generations being-there world Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination. Jean Baudrillard renovation reconstruction destruction Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much. Jean Baudrillard too-much doe art Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real. Jean Baudrillard real order believe 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 becoming essence use History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history. Jean Baudrillard farce repeats turns 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 smile shining profound When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. Jean Baudrillard assuming nostalgia real [I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored. Jean Baudrillard computer bored men 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 terrorism nihilism today 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 animal food inspirational The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. Jean Baudrillard computer humor funny We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. Jean Baudrillard foundation greatness negative It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are. Jean Baudrillard asks force identity It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. Jean Baudrillard events theory enough
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