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.
"They lean over to see an astounding thing: an image where there is nothing to see."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
February 13, 2026 at 2:55 PM
"They lean over to see an astounding thing: an image where there is nothing to see."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Because the latter does nothing but disturb the order of things, the right to property, whereas the former attacks the reality principle itself."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
February 13, 2026 at 2:25 PM
"Because the latter does nothing but disturb the order of things, the right to property, whereas the former attacks the reality principle itself."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Or does it volatilize itself in the simulacra that, alone, deploy their power and pomp of fascination - the visible machinery of icons substituted for the pure and intelligible Idea of God?"
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
February 13, 2026 at 1:55 PM
"Or does it volatilize itself in the simulacra that, alone, deploy their power and pomp of fascination - the visible machinery of icons substituted for the pure and intelligible Idea of God?"
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"The extreme form of this process is to be found in our contemporary mass media, where there never was an original, things being conceived from the start in terms of their unlimited reproducibility."
- Seduction
- Seduction
February 13, 2026 at 1:25 PM
"The extreme form of this process is to be found in our contemporary mass media, where there never was an original, things being conceived from the start in terms of their unlimited reproducibility."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"to body rituals which, like all other rituals, serve not to establish a nature and uncover its law, but to -set up appearances and organize their cycle."
- Seduction
- Seduction
February 13, 2026 at 12:55 PM
"to body rituals which, like all other rituals, serve not to establish a nature and uncover its law, but to -set up appearances and organize their cycle."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Once again, what is the point of saying that the world is ecstatic, that it is ironic, that the world is objective?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
February 13, 2026 at 12:25 PM
"Once again, what is the point of saying that the world is ecstatic, that it is ironic, that the world is objective?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"This is the strategy of oriental martial arts: never aim straight at your adversary or his weapon, never look at him, look to the side, to the empty point from where he rushes and hit there, at the empty center of the act, at the empty center of the weapon."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
February 13, 2026 at 11:55 AM
"This is the strategy of oriental martial arts: never aim straight at your adversary or his weapon, never look at him, look to the side, to the empty point from where he rushes and hit there, at the empty center of the act, at the empty center of the weapon."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"If the world is hardly compatible with the concept of the real which we impose upon it, the function of theory is certainly not to reconcile it, but on the contrary, to seduce, to wrest things from their condition, to force them into an over-existence which is inc..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
February 13, 2026 at 11:46 AM
"If the world is hardly compatible with the concept of the real which we impose upon it, the function of theory is certainly not to reconcile it, but on the contrary, to seduce, to wrest things from their condition, to force them into an over-existence which is inc..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"This is doubtless why our culture has taught women to demand nothing in order to induce them to desire nothing... And this "desire, all of which is channelled into the demand for enjoyment"?"
- Seduction
- Seduction
February 13, 2026 at 11:16 AM
"This is doubtless why our culture has taught women to demand nothing in order to induce them to desire nothing... And this "desire, all of which is channelled into the demand for enjoyment"?"
- Seduction
- Seduction
"But in the same breath ethnology grants us its only and final lesson, the secret that kills it (and which the Savages knew better than it did): the vengeance of the dead."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
February 13, 2026 at 10:46 AM
"But in the same breath ethnology grants us its only and final lesson, the secret that kills it (and which the Savages knew better than it did): the vengeance of the dead."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"For us, that sacred presence has been reduced to a tiny ironic glimmer, a nuance of play and distantiation."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
February 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
"For us, that sacred presence has been reduced to a tiny ironic glimmer, a nuance of play and distantiation."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"This imaginary of representation, which simultaneously culminates in and is engulfed by the cartographers mad project of the ideal coextensivity of map and territory, disappears in the simulation whose operation is nuclear and genetic, no longer at all specular or dis..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
February 13, 2026 at 9:46 AM
"This imaginary of representation, which simultaneously culminates in and is engulfed by the cartographers mad project of the ideal coextensivity of map and territory, disappears in the simulation whose operation is nuclear and genetic, no longer at all specular or dis..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"This soft strategy will spread, socially and historically."
- Seduction
- Seduction
February 13, 2026 at 9:16 AM
"This soft strategy will spread, socially and historically."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"All events, all spaces, all memories are abolished in the sole dimension of information: this is obscene."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
February 13, 2026 at 8:46 AM
"All events, all spaces, all memories are abolished in the sole dimension of information: this is obscene."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"A universe that can no longer be interpreted in terms of psychic or psychological relations, nor those of repression and the unconscious, but must be interpreted in the terms of play, challenges, duels, the strategy of appearances - that is, the terms of seduction."
- Seduction
- Seduction
February 13, 2026 at 8:16 AM
"A universe that can no longer be interpreted in terms of psychic or psychological relations, nor those of repression and the unconscious, but must be interpreted in the terms of play, challenges, duels, the strategy of appearances - that is, the terms of seduction."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"More generally, all the perverse forms of seduction have the following in common: they betray its secret and the fundamental rule, which is that the rule remain unspoken."
- Seduction
- Seduction
February 13, 2026 at 7:46 AM
"More generally, all the perverse forms of seduction have the following in common: they betray its secret and the fundamental rule, which is that the rule remain unspoken."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"To the second corresponds science fiction, strictly speaking."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
February 13, 2026 at 7:16 AM
"To the second corresponds science fiction, strictly speaking."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"But their faithfulness is specious, for they are waiting for someone to catch himself in their reflection."
- Seduction
- Seduction
February 13, 2026 at 6:46 AM
"But their faithfulness is specious, for they are waiting for someone to catch himself in their reflection."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The other no longer has any but a marginal value."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
February 13, 2026 at 6:16 AM
"The other no longer has any but a marginal value."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"However, just as the "relations of force" were never able to explain the vicissitudes of power in the panoptic age - except in Marxian idealism - similarly seduction, or the relations of seduction, cannot account for contemporary political events."
- Seduction
- Seduction
February 13, 2026 at 5:46 AM
"However, just as the "relations of force" were never able to explain the vicissitudes of power in the panoptic age - except in Marxian idealism - similarly seduction, or the relations of seduction, cannot account for contemporary political events."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The human race has already gone beyond its potential."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
February 13, 2026 at 5:16 AM
"The human race has already gone beyond its potential."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Only the myth is powerful, and at the heart of the cinematographic myth lies seduction - that of the renowned seductive figure, a man or woman (but above all a woman) linked to the ravishing but specious power of the cinematographic image itself."
- Seduction
- Seduction
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 AM
"Only the myth is powerful, and at the heart of the cinematographic myth lies seduction - that of the renowned seductive figure, a man or woman (but above all a woman) linked to the ravishing but specious power of the cinematographic image itself."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"This may be an ill omen."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
February 13, 2026 at 4:16 AM
"This may be an ill omen."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"In itself it is nul, seduction has no power of its own, only that of annuling the power of production."
- Seduction
- Seduction
February 13, 2026 at 3:46 AM
"In itself it is nul, seduction has no power of its own, only that of annuling the power of production."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"From a biological, genetic and cybernetic point of view, we are all mutants."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 AM
"From a biological, genetic and cybernetic point of view, we are all mutants."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication