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It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.
Jean Baudrillard
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Jean Baudrillard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 29
Died: 2007
Died: March 6
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Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.
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We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.
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