Baudrillard Warned Us
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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.
"For power, it is a question of life and death."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"For power, it is a question of life and death."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"The pleasure of an excess of meaning, when the bar of the sign falls below the usual waterline of meaning: the nonsignifier is exalted by the camera angle."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"The pleasure of an excess of meaning, when the bar of the sign falls below the usual waterline of meaning: the nonsignifier is exalted by the camera angle."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"They each contribute, irreplaceably, to woman's pleasure."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
"They each contribute, irreplaceably, to woman's pleasure."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"You cannot imagine a federation of hatreds."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"You cannot imagine a federation of hatreds."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Now, the real is never sure."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"Now, the real is never sure."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Just a form of absolution from one's own impotence and compassion for one's own fate."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"Just a form of absolution from one's own impotence and compassion for one's own fate."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"The fact that Artificial Intelligence veers off into over-high definition, into a crazy sophistication of data and operations, merely confirms that this is indeed the achieved utopia of thought."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"The fact that Artificial Intelligence veers off into over-high definition, into a crazy sophistication of data and operations, merely confirms that this is indeed the achieved utopia of thought."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"One must envisage this critical but original situation at its very limit: it is the only one left us."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"One must envisage this critical but original situation at its very limit: it is the only one left us."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Such is the attraction of the dark body of seduction."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
"Such is the attraction of the dark body of seduction."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"They seek out the wrong or reverse side of things, and undermine the world's apparent factuality."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"They seek out the wrong or reverse side of things, and undermine the world's apparent factuality."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The difference from the molar to the molecular is only a modulation, the last perhaps, in the fundamental energetic process of expanding systems."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
"The difference from the molar to the molecular is only a modulation, the last perhaps, in the fundamental energetic process of expanding systems."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Without that which reverses, annuls, and seduces them, they would never have had the authority of reality."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"Without that which reverses, annuls, and seduces them, they would never have had the authority of reality."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Beings, objects are such that, in themselves, their disappearance changes them."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 12, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"Beings, objects are such that, in themselves, their disappearance changes them."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Has it passed into the unconscious, into the repressed of psychoanalysis?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 AM
"Has it passed into the unconscious, into the repressed of psychoanalysis?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"It remains to be seen how the hypermarket centralizes and redistributes a whole region and population, how it concentrates and rationalizes time, trajectories, practices - creating an immense to-and-fro movement totally similar to that of suburban commuters, absorbed ..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"It remains to be seen how the hypermarket centralizes and redistributes a whole region and population, how it concentrates and rationalizes time, trajectories, practices - creating an immense to-and-fro movement totally similar to that of suburban commuters, absorbed ..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"But such seduction has no more meaning than anything else, seduction here connotes only a kind of ludic adhesion to simulated pieces of information, a kind of tactile attraction maintained by the models."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"But such seduction has no more meaning than anything else, seduction here connotes only a kind of ludic adhesion to simulated pieces of information, a kind of tactile attraction maintained by the models."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"One is playing with death, it always being a matter of capturing or immolating the desire of the other."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"One is playing with death, it always being a matter of capturing or immolating the desire of the other."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"If the speed of light were infinite, all the stars would be there simultaneously and the celestial vault would be an unbearable incandescence."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"If the speed of light were infinite, all the stars would be there simultaneously and the celestial vault would be an unbearable incandescence."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Though the fruits of gambling are unequal -- ruled by `luck', though this is an inequality for which you do not have to answer to your conscience -- the distribution of opportunities is equal, because it is that of chance."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"Though the fruits of gambling are unequal -- ruled by `luck', though this is an inequality for which you do not have to answer to your conscience -- the distribution of opportunities is equal, because it is that of chance."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Thus the second woman is irresistibly tempted to rewrite the first letter, as if a temptation could function autonomously and ironically, as if the very idea could be seductive."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"Thus the second woman is irresistibly tempted to rewrite the first letter, as if a temptation could function autonomously and ironically, as if the very idea could be seductive."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"They are not even solidary - solidarity supposing a formal conception of the social, the moral ideal of a group in competition."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"They are not even solidary - solidarity supposing a formal conception of the social, the moral ideal of a group in competition."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Today, the world has become real beyond our wildest expectations."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
"Today, the world has become real beyond our wildest expectations."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"In both cases, however, seduction, whether as seducer or seduced, is denied."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"In both cases, however, seduction, whether as seducer or seduced, is denied."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"We are no longer free not to will."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"We are no longer free not to will."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"This was the pious vow of a perpetuated era of Enlightenment, and to this day it determines the moral standing of the intellectual."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"This was the pious vow of a perpetuated era of Enlightenment, and to this day it determines the moral standing of the intellectual."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication