Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillardwas a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 July 1929
CountryFrance
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Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers -- and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.
aphrodisiac innocence
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
nihilism today terrorism
Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.
modern born modernism
You are born modern, you do not become so.
democracies-have lust democracy
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
technology data omnipotence
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.
landscape desert form
The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others.
destruction renovation reconstruction
Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination.
technology silence humanity
The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.
almost-perfect shining world
Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolution of the world, which merely leave the illusion of a particular object shining forth, the image of which then becomes an impenetrable enigma.
time boredom faces
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
technology space people
Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers - and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.
farce turns repeats
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
generations world being-there
Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.