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
animal men territory
Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.
love business heart
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.
identity teeth may
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
inspirational food men
Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.
exercise power abjection
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.
life player games
One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.
night light air
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.
driving genocide form
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
democracies-have lust democracy
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
simulacrum
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
real age resurrection
... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself.
flirting shopping synthesis
The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.
dream math wish
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
modern born modernism
You are born modern, you do not become so.