Jean Baudrillard Quotes

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it r...

Each category is generalized to the greatest possible extent, so that it eventually loses all specif...

At the fourth, the fractal (or viral, or radiant) stage of value, there is no point of reference at ...

This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which use...

Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation i...

What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will neve...

Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American C...

Our sentimentality toward animals is a sure sign of the disdain in which we hold them. Sentimentalit...

Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, f...

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the re...

it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them)...

Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itse...

It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that r...

What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilat...

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one does...

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can ma...

Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiq...

The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ab...

Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer ...

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appe...

Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by...

The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the ...

Twins were deified, and sacrificed, in a more savage culture: hypersimilitude was equivalent to the ...

We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) b...

But what becomes of the divinity when it reveals itself in icons, when it is multiplied in simulacra...

Simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they [media] propagate the brutal charm of the terro...

It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form,...

The parallel between these animals sick from surplus value and humans sick from industrial concentra...

In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happ...

The information superhighways will have the same effect as our present superhighways or motorways. T...

When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.

We find the same situation in the economy. On the one hand, the battered remnants of production and ...

In symbolic exchange, of which the gift is our most proximate illustration, the object is not an obj...

The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a sin...

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays...

It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hy...

We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-he...

…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: ha...

Speed is simply the rite that initiates us intoemptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to ...

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the o...

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never tr...

What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equ...

I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned" - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of th...

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence

But this aura of an artificial menace was still necessary to conceal that they [Presidents] were no ...

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand...

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the abs...

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is ...

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it m...

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his...

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

What we seek in travel is neither discovery nor trade but rather a gentle deterritorialization: we w...

If you do not lend your car, your fountain pen or your wife to anyone, that is because these objects...