Quotes by Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

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Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by magic?Why did this — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhe — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
But what becomes of the divinity when it reveals itself in icons, when it is multiplied in simulacra? Does it remain the — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them). — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be repro — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with th — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, a — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are i — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Twins were deified, and sacrificed, in a more savage culture: hypersimilitude was equivalent to the murder of the origin — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
The parallel between these animals sick from surplus value and humans sick from industrial concentration is illuminating — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [ — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to li — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation