Baudrillard Warned Us
quotes from the works of Jean Baudrillard
Repurposed twitter bot from years ago. Texts scraped with regex and bad pdf2text extraction. Currently includes Seduction, Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, and The Ecstasy of Communication.
- "If the world is to be perfect, it will first have to be made." - The Perfect Crime
- "Are we to think that this diffuse seduction, which is neither attractive nor dangerous, this specter of seduction that haunts our circuits without secrets, our phantasies without affect, and our contact networks without contacts, that this is its pure form?" - Seduction
- "The sexual difference, the concept of sexual difference which was established in the same movement, was merely a variant of the incestuous form." - The Perfect Crime
- "One then "tried a reform: the interpolation of a few unfavourable tickets in the list of favourable numbers" - with the risk of paying a considerable fine." - Seduction
- "The way in which we interpret our body today, instead of the divination derived from dance, the duel and stellar planets, the way in which we recound it in our unrecognizable simulacrum of reality, as an individuated space of pulsion, of desire and phantasies, has..." - The Ecstasy of Communication
- "Children speak, to the adult universe they are no longer those simultaneously strange and insignificant beings children signify, they have become significant - not through some sort of "liberation" of their speech, but because adult reason has given itself the most su..." - Simulacra and Simulation
- "They were not the ones in need of compassion; they had compassion for our wretched destinies." - The Perfect Crime
- "It is also characteristic of the fractal object to be contained entirely in its minutest details." - The Ecstasy of Communication
- "This is why all disciplines, which have as an axiom the coherence and finality of their discourse, must try to exorcize it." - Seduction
- "The sovereignty of seduction is incommensurable with the possession of political or sexual power." - Seduction