Jean Baudrillard Quotes



Best 9 Simulacra and Simulation Quotes by Jean Baudrillard

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“Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.”

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“Art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image.

Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.”

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“But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum – not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.”

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“One has never said better how much 'humanism', 'normality', 'quality of life' were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.”

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“The neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone – remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design – but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.”

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“This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.”

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“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”

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“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the veracity of living phantoms, of wandering and simulating animals that capital, that the death of capital has made of us – because the desert of cities is equal to the desert of sand – the jungle of signs is equal to that of the forests – the vertigo of simulacra is equal to that of nature – only the vertiginous seduction of a dying system remains, in which work buries work, in which value buries value – leaving a virgin, sacred space without pathways, continuous as Bataille wished it, where only the wind lifts the sand, where only the wind watches over the sand.”

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“Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland: digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality. Certainly.

But this masks something else and this 'ideological' blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the 'real' country, all of 'real' America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral).

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation.

It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.”

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