Quotes About Jean Baudrillard

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.

Against all our historically-minded culture (out of compassion for our present state), the only excitement is to be found in anticipation (out of impertinence towards our future state).

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

la presencia no se borra ante el vacío, se borra ante un redoblamiento de presencia que borra la oposición de la presencia y de la ausencia

The most perfect synthesis of theory and practice is the vanishing of thought into the actual course of the world.

With the mechanics of the transpolitical, the transsexual and the transaesthetic, all desiring machines are becoming bachelor machines...

Tautology, being the most vulgar logical expression, is always the strongest argument.

Because it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.