Baudrillard Warned Us

"Both languages of the masses, issuing from the mass production of ideas, or commodities, their registers, separate at first, progressively converge." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Put it into orbit, send it into space?" - The Perfect Crime

"For us moderns, at any rate, art has ceased to be an illusion; it has become an idea." - The Perfect Crime

"Our mortal self-absorption with our image consoles us for the irreversibility of our having been born and having to reproduce." - Seduction

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"No more power, speed, appropriation phantasies linked to the object itself, but a potential tactic linked to its use -- mastery, control and command, optimization of the game of possibilities, which the automobile offers as a vector, and no longer as a psychologic..." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"And this is not merely metaphysical: in the physical order, too, from its origin -- whatever that may be -- the world has been forever appearing and disappearing." - The Perfect Crime

"Our entire conception of sexuality may be collapsing because constructed around the phallic function and the positive definition of sex." - Seduction

"Proximity of human beings and their remote action: settle all your business at the other end of the world, via an ectoplasmic intermediary." - The Perfect Crime

"Thus it happens that in a surfeit of emotion he launches into a panegyric to female beauty in its infinite divisibility, detailed in its' minute erotic variations, and then assembled into a single figure, within the heated imagination of an inflamed desire." - Seduction

"They were, besides, quite different; neither beings nor colours nor shapes were the same." - The Perfect Crime

"Being an idol; she must be gilded and adored." - Seduction

"In fact, the panther of the mythical scent is simply the epicenter of death, and from this weakness subtle fragrances emerge." - Seduction

"Gaming does not require us to believe in it, any more than we are called on to believe in appearances once they present themselves as such (in art, for example)." - The Perfect Crime

"This is the case with the cheater, who denies or, even better, profanes the game's ceremonial conventions for economic reasons (or psychological reasons, if he cheats simply for the pleasure of winning), and thereby restores the laws of the real world." - Seduction

"We can no longer even imagine the brutality of the creative act, but God has perhaps taken this into account and, in compensation, provided us with a simulacrum of history, to make man's existence bearable to him." - The Perfect Crime

"If we can have any hope of staving off this process, it is by making people a little more enigmatic to themselves, a little more alien one to another." - The Perfect Crime

"The West is seized with panic at the thought of not being able to save what the symbolic order had been able to conserve for forty centuries, but out of sight and far from the light of day." - Simulacra and Simulation

"That is politically correct, but intellectually anachronistic." - The Perfect Crime

"There is another type of indirect reverberation: hypnosis, a sort of psychic mirror in which, once again, the girl is reflected without her awareness, under someone else's gaze: Today my eyes have for the first time rested upon her." - Seduction

"It says: "I know what you want to be seduced, and I will seduce you."" - The Ecstasy of Communication

"Behind a performative and demonstrative logic: the obsession with historical fidelity, with a perfect rendering (as elsewhere the obsession with real time or with the minute quotidianeity of Jeanne Hilmann doing the dishes), this negative and implacable fidelity to th..." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Fatality today is of the order of an interior giddiness, of an explosion of the identical, of the "narcissistic" faithfulness to one's own sign and to one's own formula." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"Or information has nothing to do with signification." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Once that initial (and perfectly hypothetical) state came to an end, the illusion of the world began." - The Perfect Crime

"To be deprived of seduction is the only true form of castration." - Seduction

"Whether in this telepresence, in the live TV psychodrama or in the immediacy of information on all screens, what we have here is the same short-circuiting of real life." - The Perfect Crime

"Sexual pleasure has become a requisite and a fundamental right." - Seduction

"Predestination coincides here with a total mobility, and an arbitrary system with the most radical democracy (the instantaneous exchange of all positions something to satisfy the present-day's thirst for polyvalence)." - Seduction

"The success of Beaubourg is no longer a mystery: the people go there for that, they throw themselves on this building, whose fragility already breathes catastrophe, with the single goal of making it bend." - Simulacra and Simulation

"The best analogy would be with primitive cultures, which have been described as closed in on themselves, incapable of conceiving of the rest of the world." - Seduction

"In the same movement, however, it will seek something more rapid than communication: the challenge, the duel." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"In an image certain parts are visible, while others are not; visible parts render the others invisible, and a rhythm of emergence and secrecy sets in, a kind of water mark of the imaginary." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"It is by virtue of this fact that it takes the place of myths on the screen." - Simulacra and Simulation

"These billboards, in fact, observe and surveil you as well, or as badly, as the "policing" television." - Simulacra and Simulation

""The Louds: simply a family who agreed to deliver themselves into the hands of television, and to die by it," the director will say." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Warhol never tires himself." - The Perfect Crime

"The objective illusion is the physical fact that in this universe no things coexist in real time -- not sexes, stars, this glass, this table, or myself and all that surrounds me." - The Perfect Crime

"It is not the direct threat of atomic destruction that paralyzes our lives, it is deterrence that gives them leukemia." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Whence that insoluble controversy: was TV itself responsible?" - Simulacra and Simulation

"Or else, in the case of history, ridding itself of its incoherences and contradictions in a single unpredictable event, in which the actors seem mere extras -- as in the events in Eastern Europe, which have no meaning in themselves, being merely the liquidation of an impossi..." - The Perfect Crime

"The natural light of genius is rare, but the artificial light which reigns over our world is so plentiful that there will inevitably be enough for everyone." - The Perfect Crime

"If truth does not dissimulate itself, the world will conjure it away by diverse means, by a kind of objective irony, or vengeance." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"In games too, unlike the real, there is nothing left over." - Seduction

"Sex today generally occurs only in the place, and in place of a missing seduction, or as the residue and staging of a failed seduction." - Seduction

"A hybrid, then, but a prefiguration of the psychotropic and dataprocessing networks of the automatic piloting of individuals, next to which the "conditioning" by advertising looks like a delightful change in fortune." - Simulacra and Simulation

"A complete reversal of the rules of the game is in effect here, allowing us to surmise ironically, by the allegory of the trompe Z'oeil, that the external space, that of the palace, and beyond it, the city, that is, the political space, the locus of power, is itself perhaps only an ..." - Seduction

"Desire may well be the Law of the universe, but the eternalreturn is its rule." - Seduction

"No interpretation can explain it, no system can abolish it." - The Ecstasy of Communication