Quotes About Baudrillard

And yet, thinkers far more sober than Baudrillard view the events of September 11 as a consequence of American foreign policy.

He was so thin, so translucent, that he had to pass through the same place twice to leave a shadow.

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 she were studying Orciny, and there might be excellent reasons to do so, she'd be doing her doctorate in Folklore or Anthropology or maybe Comp Lit. Granted, the edges of disciplines are getting vague. Also that Mahalia is one of a number of young archaeologists more interested in Foucault and Baudrillard than in Gordon Childe or in trowels.

The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...

In the past, bad literature was made with high-flown sentiment; today, it is made with the unconscious.

When we had no means, we said the end justifies the means. Now that we have no ends, we say the means justify the end. Neither is immoral. What is entirely immoral is that there is no longer any contradiction between the two: ends and means have become indifferent to one another. They are quite simply no longer of the same order.

Just as the waste of time nourishes the hell of leisure, so technological wastes nourish the hell of war. Wastes which incarnate the secret violence of this society, uncoerced and non-degradable defecation.

Such is the well-tempered application of the principle of evil. If the system fails to be everything, nothing will remain of it. If thought fails to be nothing, something will remain of it.

Innocence, that mild form of mental deficiency, has the same aphrodisiac effect as softness of skin.