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Letter "J" » Jean Baudrillard Quotes
«Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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Angeles, blackout, bombardment, breaking off, California, catastrophic, distinguished, earthquake, horizontal, inferno, Kong, Pacific, presuppose, presupposes, sliding, the Pacific, towering, vertical
«It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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acceleration, analyze, an event, deliberate, describes, distortion, on time, operate, operate on, partake, partaken, partakes, partake in, partaking, referent, referents, take pride
«Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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drag, executing, executives, hurtling, jogger, joggers, onwards, on the spot, paw, pawing, paws, The Spot
«Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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consternation, Good Time, Greek, Greek Tragedy, integrate, integrated, in chorus, screen, television show, television shows, the Chorus, the screen, The Show, viewers
«If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.»
«There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.»
«A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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boxing ring, resume, resumed, resumes, syndrome, telephone box, telephone call, The Box, watched
«As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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agility, approaches, brush, brush up, curtains, demented, dreamy, End Of The Century, fall down, first century, icy, last century, mists, oscillated, oscillates, oscillating, roll down, The Culture, turn of the century, wash
«The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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boulevard, boulevards, Buildings, childish, fake, ghost, ghost town, Hollywood Boulevard, obsolescence, sumptuous, sunset, The Crowd, tornado, tornadoes, towns, tricks
«There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.»
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