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.
"Anomaly is what escapes not only the law but the rule."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"Anomaly is what escapes not only the law but the rule."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"It is that in both cases the line of structural demarcation, the line of the sharing of meaning, has become a wavering one, it is that meaning (most literally: the possibility of going from one point to another according to a vector determined by the respective positi..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"It is that in both cases the line of structural demarcation, the line of the sharing of meaning, has become a wavering one, it is that meaning (most literally: the possibility of going from one point to another according to a vector determined by the respective positi..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"The hypermarket as nucleus."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
"The hypermarket as nucleus."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Will it be found in the left or the right hemisphere?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
"Will it be found in the left or the right hemisphere?"
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"The power of metamorphosis is at the root of all seduction, including the most shifting forms of substitution: those of faces, roles and masks."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"The power of metamorphosis is at the root of all seduction, including the most shifting forms of substitution: those of faces, roles and masks."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"Behind every fragment of reality, something has to have disappeared in order to ensure the continuity of the nothing -- without, however, yielding to the temptation of annihilation, for disappearance has to remain a living disappearance, and the trace of the crime a living t..."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
"Behind every fragment of reality, something has to have disappeared in order to ensure the continuity of the nothing -- without, however, yielding to the temptation of annihilation, for disappearance has to remain a living disappearance, and the trace of the crime a living t..."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Because there is a nostalgia of the dialectic, and without a doubt the most subtle dialectic is nostalgic to begin with."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"Because there is a nostalgia of the dialectic, and without a doubt the most subtle dialectic is nostalgic to begin with."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"An adolescent girl in a denim suit walked past us, her young man with an arm around her waist."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"An adolescent girl in a denim suit walked past us, her young man with an arm around her waist."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"A strike has exactly the opposite effect."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
"A strike has exactly the opposite effect."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"If hysteria was teh pathology of the exacerbated staging of the subject -- of the theatrical and operational conversion of the body -- and if paranoia was the pathology of organization -- of the structuring of a rigid and jealous world -- then today we have entere..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
"If hysteria was teh pathology of the exacerbated staging of the subject -- of the theatrical and operational conversion of the body -- and if paranoia was the pathology of organization -- of the structuring of a rigid and jealous world -- then today we have entere..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"This radical thought does not stem from a philosophical doubt, a utopian transference, or an ideal transcendence."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"This radical thought does not stem from a philosophical doubt, a utopian transference, or an ideal transcendence."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"The materialization of the real, biological double in the clone cuts short the possibility of playing with one's own image and, thereby, playing with one's own death."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
"The materialization of the real, biological double in the clone cuts short the possibility of playing with one's own image and, thereby, playing with one's own death."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"It is an excess of positive reaction."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"It is an excess of positive reaction."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"The objects we subjected to the full glare of criticism -- sex, dreams, work, history, power -- have taken their revenge by disappearing, producing, in return, the consoling illusion of truth."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"The objects we subjected to the full glare of criticism -- sex, dreams, work, history, power -- have taken their revenge by disappearing, producing, in return, the consoling illusion of truth."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Because, now it can only be simulated."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
"Because, now it can only be simulated."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Between the operatic (the theatrical status of theatrical and fantastical machinery, the "grand opera" of technique) that corresponds to the first order, the operative (the industrial, productive status, productive of power and energy) that corresponds to the second o..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"Between the operatic (the theatrical status of theatrical and fantastical machinery, the "grand opera" of technique) that corresponds to the first order, the operative (the industrial, productive status, productive of power and energy) that corresponds to the second o..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"One can then only reward her with her death."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"One can then only reward her with her death."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"However, the balance of terror is never anything but the spectacular slope of a system of deterrence that has insinuated itself from the inside into all the cracks of daily life."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"However, the balance of terror is never anything but the spectacular slope of a system of deterrence that has insinuated itself from the inside into all the cracks of daily life."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Today, the contraceptive sheath is used for seduction."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"Today, the contraceptive sheath is used for seduction."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"It is the whole political problem of parody, of hypersimulation or offensive simulation, that is posed here."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"It is the whole political problem of parody, of hypersimulation or offensive simulation, that is posed here."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Today, it is destiny which is surging back towards us through the screens of science."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
"Today, it is destiny which is surging back towards us through the screens of science."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Surface and appearance, that is the space of seduction."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"Surface and appearance, that is the space of seduction."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"What could be more seductive than a challenge?"
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM
"What could be more seductive than a challenge?"
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The war lasted as long as elements irreducible to a healthy politics and discipline of power, even a Communist one, remained unliquidated."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"The war lasted as long as elements irreducible to a healthy politics and discipline of power, even a Communist one, remained unliquidated."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Fortunately, psychoanalysis has come along to lift the burden and reveal what was hidden."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"Fortunately, psychoanalysis has come along to lift the burden and reveal what was hidden."
- Seduction
- Seduction