The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy. Jean Baudrillard More Quotes by Jean Baudrillard More Quotes From Jean Baudrillard There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Jean Baudrillard communication dream men Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void. Jean Baudrillard vision eye taken At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance. Jean Baudrillard pornography sexuality heart Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true . Jean Baudrillard becoming truth reality Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching. Jean Baudrillard independence skills men Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. Jean Baudrillard santa-barbara paradise may Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. Jean Baudrillard fear dark night We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. Jean Baudrillard impact growth purpose Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. Jean Baudrillard innocence language long The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud. Jean Baudrillard deceit ignorance opposites Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened. Jean Baudrillard catastrophe assuming moving The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. Jean Baudrillard deep-thought desert silence We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse. Jean Baudrillard collapse events historical The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real. Jean Baudrillard hype real giving ... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself. Jean Baudrillard resurrection real age If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it. Jean Baudrillard men mean thinking Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power. Jean Baudrillard grateful power revenge Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy Jean Baudrillard entropy innovation information In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing. Jean Baudrillard fashion play culture Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. Jean Baudrillard democracies-have democracy lust
