{"author":"Jean Baudrillard","author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard","total_quotes":57,"quotes":[{"text":"We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only do they care little for such a view, but their perspective is the very opposite: it is not conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and materializing ideas, that interests them. The ideas of the religion and enlightened morality of the eighteenth century certainly, but also dreams, scientific values, and sexual perversions. Materializing freedom, but also the unconscious. Our phantasies around space and fiction, but also our phantasies of sincerity and virtue, or our mad dreams of technicity. Everything that has been dreamt on this side of the Atlantic has a chance of being realized on the other. They build the real out of ideas. We transform the real into ideas, or into ideology.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["america","baudrillard","sociology"],"id":2099,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"},{"text":"What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["imagery","reality","reproduction"],"id":5131,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"},{"text":"At the fourth, the fractal (or viral, or radiant) stage of value, there is no point of reference at all, and value radiates in all directions, occupying all interstices, without reference to anything whatsoever, by virtue of pure contiguity. At the fractal stage there is no longer any equivalence, whether natural or general. Properly speaking there is now no law of value, merely a sort of epidemic of value, a sort of general metastasis of value, a haphazard proliferation and dispersal of value. Indeed, we should really no longer speak of 'value' at all, for this kind of propagation or chain reaction makes all valuation possible.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["ethics","progress","science"],"id":6252,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"},{"text":"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["politics","society"],"id":13684,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"},{"text":"I vote, I participate, I am present, I am concerned' - mirror of a paradoxical mockery, mirror of the indifference of all public signification.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["depression"],"id":15180,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"},{"text":"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["love","measure","play "],"id":32838,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"},{"text":"What we seek in travel is neither discovery nor trade but rather a gentle deterritorialization: we want to be taken over by the journey - in other words, by absence. As our metal vectors transcend meridians, oceans and poles, absence takes on a fleshy quality. The clandestineness of the depths of private life gives way to annihilation by longitude and latitude. But in the end the body tires of not knowing where it is, even if the mind finds this absence exalting, as if it were a quality proper to itself.Perhaps, after all, what we seek in others is the same gentle deterritorialization that we seek in travel. Instead of one's own desire, instead of discovery, we are tempted by exile in the desire of the other, or by the desire of the other as an ocean to cross. The looks and gestures of lovers already have the distance of exile about them; the language of lovers is an expatriation in words that are afraid to signify; and the bodies of lovers are a tender hologram to eye and hand, offering no resistance and hence susceptible of being crisscrossed, like airspace, by desire. We move around with circumspection on a mental planet of circumvolutions, and from our excesses and passions we bring back the same transparent memories as we do from our travels.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["desire","lovers","travel"],"id":50261,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"},{"text":"To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["dissimulation","having","reality","simulation"],"id":51208,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"},{"text":"Speed is simply the rite that initiates us intoemptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to immobility, concealed beneath the very intensification of their mobility. Akin to the nostalgia for living forms that haunts geometry.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["geometry","immobility","nostalgia","speed"],"id":52474,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"},{"text":"Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality. Certainly. But this masks something else and this 'ideological' blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the 'real' country, all of 'real' America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.","author":"Jean Baudrillard","tags":["america","disneyland","simulacra","simulation"],"id":74507,"author_id":"Jean+Baudrillard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}