Actions Quotes Logo
Quote Image

What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilated on the television screen. We are in the era of events without consequences (and of theories without consequences).

~ Jean Baudrillard ~

Actions Quotes Logo
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound
Switch quote backgound

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

Show More

More Jean Baudrillard quotes

"

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain...

"

It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a sing...

"

Simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they [media] propagate the brutal charm of the terrorist act, they are themselves terrorists, insofar ...

"

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the n...

"

The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. ...

"

This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not...