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Jean Baudrillard was a French philosopher known for his critical studies on consumerism, media, and semiotics. His theories have had a profound impact on postmodernism and cultural studies.

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“When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.”

Real Reality Used Assuming Nostalgia Used To Be

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.”

Source: Cool memories

“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.”

Believe Real Order Imaginary Disneyland Simulacrum

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself.”

Real Age Materials Resurrection Artificial Imitation Parody Simulation

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of signifying, through this fabulous capture, that this supposed real world is always about to lose its meaning and its reality.”

World Way Real Reality Form Loses Photography Appearance Saving Capture Real World Fabulous Another Way Fables Signifying

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.”

Giving Real Reality Definitions Hype Reproduction Hyper

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.”

Wells Real Violence Security Terrorism Surface Invisible Opposition Simulacrum

Book:Simulacra and Simulation

Source: Simulacra and Simulation

“But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum - not unreal, but simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.”

Ifs Real Whole What If Unreal Circuits Simulacrum

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.”

Real Desert Empires Maps Here And There Simulacrum

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Welcome to the Desert of the Real.”

Real Welcome Desert

Book:Exiles from Dialogue

Source: Exiles from Dialogue

“Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.”

Real Illusion Simulacrum

Book:Simulacra and Simulation

Source: Simulacra and Simulation

“Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.”

Real Sex Thirds Add Track Details Excess Fourth Pornography Hallucinations Exactitude

Author:Jean Baudrillard

About the Author

Born: July 27, 1929
Died: March 6, 2007
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 534

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Cool memoriesRelated source material

Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004Related source material

The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme PhenomenaRelated source material

The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity PactRelated source material

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