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Jean Baudrillard Quotes
Birthday: | July 27, 1929 |
Birthplace: | Reims, France |
Death: | March 6, 2007 |
Educated At: | University Of Paris |
Nationality: | France |
Occupations: | Professor, Sociologist, Translator, Literary Critic, Philosopher |
Total quotes: 35
Jean Baudrillard
BirthnameBirthday: July 27, 1929
Birthplace: Reims, France
Death: March 6, 2007
Educated At: University Of Paris
Nationality: France
Occupations: Professor, Sociologist, Translator, Literary Critic, Philosopher
Total quotes: 35
“With truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.”
Tagged:
Epistemology, Truth
“Our task is clear: we must make that world even more unintelligible, even more enigmatic.”
Tagged:
The Clearing
“True poetry is what which has lost all the distinctive signs of poetry. If poetry exists, it is anywhere but in poetry. ”
Tagged:
Poetry
“Power will devolve to it, not to resolve a real crisis (it doesn't exist), but to manage the discourse of the crisis...”
Tagged:
Crisis
“It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done it yourself. You feel no intellectual jealously at seeing yourself outstripped in this way. ”
Tagged:
Quotes
“The indifference of trees to the historical moment. The indifference of dreams to interpretation. The indifference of the people to its own triumph. The indifference of the body to the revolution. The dazzling metaphysical spectacle of the sameness of faces the morning after revolution. ”
Tagged:
Revolution
“As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which it will no longer be possible to transgress. The air traveller is not free. In the future, life's passengers will be even less so: they will travel through their lives fastened to their (corporate) seats. ”
Tagged:
Corporate Living, Freedom
“Socialism comes to power, paradoxically, when all compulsive energy to go beyond oneself, all social energies of rupture, all alternative cultural energies have more or less been exhausted — and it carries the sigmas of this exhaustion, and profits by it. If it sets itself up without resistance, it's not so much that it has won over the Right, it's because the entire space before it has been emptied by the reflux of vital forces.”
Tagged:
Socialism
“Critical consciousness, thought in general, perhaps, always comes after the fact, a day too late, like Kafka’s Messiah—or it comes at the close of the day, like Hegel’s owl. It is nothing but retrospective prophecy, or some platonic shadow dancing on the wall of events, in the cavern of history. 'If I speak of time,' Queneau wrote, 'it is because we are already out of time.' History doesn’t offer a second seating (L’histoire ne repasse pas les plats)—only critique does.”
Tagged:
Consciousness, Theory
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