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
world meaning-of-life killing
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.
mean race world
The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.
dark night sides
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
change smart great-person
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
fake-people believe politician
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
santa-barbara paradise may
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
finals delicacy landscape
Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.
real nostalgia assuming
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.
taken eye vision
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
love broken-heart stars
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.
aphrodisiac innocence
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
truth reality becoming
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .
night journey time-zones
Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.
lying heart dating
Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.