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Letter "J" » Jean Baudrillard Quotes
«The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.»
«In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.»
«If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere, man would use every means at his disposal to destroy it.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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disposal, elsewhere, human species, organization man, rival, slightest, superiority
«The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.»
«If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
«The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.»
«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.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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bluff, bluffer, deep space, Open society, simulation, simulations, spaces, technological, the US
«In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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absolve, absolved, extreme unction, foolishness, gone by, unction
«Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.»
«Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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