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Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard

French sociologist and philosopher.

Lived from: 1929 - 2007

Category: History and sociology | Philosophers Country: FlagFrance

Born: 27 july 1929 Died: 6 march 2007

  • Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
  • There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
  • In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
  • 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.
  • We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
  • 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.
  • The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
  • With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.
  • If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
  • There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
  • To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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  • 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.
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  • Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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  • Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
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  • 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.
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  • What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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