Baudrillard Warned Us
@baudrillardwarned.us
quotes from the works of Jean Baudrillard
Repurposed twitter bot from years ago. Texts scraped with regex and bad pdf2text extraction. Currently includes Seduction, Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, and The Ecstasy of Communication.
Repurposed twitter bot from years ago. Texts scraped with regex and bad pdf2text extraction. Currently includes Seduction, Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, and The Ecstasy of Communication.
"The reaction of the people was interesting."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
December 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"The reaction of the people was interesting."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"The Revenge of the Mirror People Here begins the great revenge of otherness, of all the forms which, subtly or violently deprived of their singularity, henceforth pose an insoluble problem for the social order, and also for the political and biological orders."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
December 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"The Revenge of the Mirror People Here begins the great revenge of otherness, of all the forms which, subtly or violently deprived of their singularity, henceforth pose an insoluble problem for the social order, and also for the political and biological orders."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"In the logic of reflex behaviors and of the animal - machine, in rational logic, these anomalies are not qualifiable."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
December 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"In the logic of reflex behaviors and of the animal - machine, in rational logic, these anomalies are not qualifiable."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"This is why the pleasure that they give us, their seductiveness, however small, is radical; for it comes from a radical surprise borne of appearances, from a life prior to the mode of production of the real world."
- Seduction
- Seduction
December 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"This is why the pleasure that they give us, their seductiveness, however small, is radical; for it comes from a radical surprise borne of appearances, from a life prior to the mode of production of the real world."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Perhaps science fiction from the cybernetic and hyperreal era can only exhaust itself, in its artificial resurrection of "historical" worlds, can only try to reconstruct in vitro, down to the smallest details, the perimeters of a prior world, the events, the people, t..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
December 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"Perhaps science fiction from the cybernetic and hyperreal era can only exhaust itself, in its artificial resurrection of "historical" worlds, can only try to reconstruct in vitro, down to the smallest details, the perimeters of a prior world, the events, the people, t..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"For the body of the real was never recovered."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
December 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"For the body of the real was never recovered."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"But this is a means for it not to die."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
December 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"But this is a means for it not to die."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"The sign falls from seduction into interpretation, and as a result Harold also falls from the enchanted sphere of seduction into the sphere of the real and the matrimonial."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
December 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"The sign falls from seduction into interpretation, and as a result Harold also falls from the enchanted sphere of seduction into the sphere of the real and the matrimonial."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Too bad for the masses, too bad for Beaubourg."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
December 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"Too bad for the masses, too bad for Beaubourg."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"What is in question here is not a thing kept secret, for this only overstimulates the will to knowledge, and always appears in the semblance of a truth."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
December 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"What is in question here is not a thing kept secret, for this only overstimulates the will to knowledge, and always appears in the semblance of a truth."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"The nihilism of transparency is no longer either aesthetic or political, no longer borrows from either the extermination of appearances, nor from extinguishing the embers of meaning, nor from the last nuances of an apocalypse."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
December 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"The nihilism of transparency is no longer either aesthetic or political, no longer borrows from either the extermination of appearances, nor from extinguishing the embers of meaning, nor from the last nuances of an apocalypse."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"But a certain perversion is seductive, since it uses the detour of perversion to seduce."
- Seduction
- Seduction
December 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"But a certain perversion is seductive, since it uses the detour of perversion to seduce."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The absurdity of this enterprise is already evident where the human genome is concerned."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
December 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
"The absurdity of this enterprise is already evident where the human genome is concerned."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Challenge is that to which one cannot avoid responding, while one can choose not to respond to desire."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
December 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"Challenge is that to which one cannot avoid responding, while one can choose not to respond to desire."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"The uncertainty of existing, and consequently the obsession of proving our existence, prevail over the desire that is strictly sexual."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
December 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"The uncertainty of existing, and consequently the obsession of proving our existence, prevail over the desire that is strictly sexual."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"For at the same time that it perfects the means of synthesis, it deepens the criteria of analysis and definition to such an extent that total faithfulness, exhaustiveness as regards the real becomes forever impossible."
- Seduction
- Seduction
December 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"For at the same time that it perfects the means of synthesis, it deepens the criteria of analysis and definition to such an extent that total faithfulness, exhaustiveness as regards the real becomes forever impossible."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"In that new space, as in Alice's looking-glass space, words and effects are stood on their head, and every movement impedes every other."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
December 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"In that new space, as in Alice's looking-glass space, words and effects are stood on their head, and every movement impedes every other."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"The contrast with the absolute solitude of the parking lot - a veritable concentration camp - is total."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
December 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"The contrast with the absolute solitude of the parking lot - a veritable concentration camp - is total."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"No more power, speed, appropriation phantasies linked to the object itself, but a potential tactic linked to its use -- mastery, control and command, optimization of the game of possibilities, which the automobile offers as a vector, and no longer as a psychologic..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
December 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"No more power, speed, appropriation phantasies linked to the object itself, but a potential tactic linked to its use -- mastery, control and command, optimization of the game of possibilities, which the automobile offers as a vector, and no longer as a psychologic..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"The double is an imaginary figure that, like the, soul or one's shadow, or one's image in a mirror, haunts the subject with a faint death that has to be constantly warded off."
- Seduction
- Seduction
December 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
"The double is an imaginary figure that, like the, soul or one's shadow, or one's image in a mirror, haunts the subject with a faint death that has to be constantly warded off."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Let us be analysts for one blazing instant, and say that it is the revenge of the repressed, the repression of seduction, that is at the origin of psychoanalysis as a "science," within the intellectural trajectory of Freud himself."
- Seduction
- Seduction
December 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"Let us be analysts for one blazing instant, and say that it is the revenge of the repressed, the repression of seduction, that is at the origin of psychoanalysis as a "science," within the intellectural trajectory of Freud himself."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"One demonstrates for or against the nothing -- how are we to know?"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
December 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"One demonstrates for or against the nothing -- how are we to know?"
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"He is to seduction what the cheater is to the game."
- Seduction
- Seduction
December 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
"He is to seduction what the cheater is to the game."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"We are no longer conscious of the spiral of simulation that preceded reality."
- Seduction
- Seduction
December 27, 2025 at 6:39 AM
"We are no longer conscious of the spiral of simulation that preceded reality."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Power itself has for a long time produced nothing but the signs of its resemblance."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
December 27, 2025 at 6:09 AM
"Power itself has for a long time produced nothing but the signs of its resemblance."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation