Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard (; 27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer.

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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

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Jean Baudrillard

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

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Jean Baudrillard

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

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Jean Baudrillard

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

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Jean Baudrillard

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

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Jean Baudrillard

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

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Jean Baudrillard

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

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Jean Baudrillard

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

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Jean Baudrillard

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

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Jean Baudrillard

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

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Jean Baudrillard