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Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.
Jean Baudrillard
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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
Anthropologist
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Ḻāṉ Pōtriyā
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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.
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The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.
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History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.
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