Baudrillard Warned Us
@baudrillardwarned.us
quotes from the works of Jean Baudrillard
Repurposed twitter bot from years ago. Texts scraped with regex and bad pdf2text extraction. Currently includes Seduction, Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, and The Ecstasy of Communication.
Repurposed twitter bot from years ago. Texts scraped with regex and bad pdf2text extraction. Currently includes Seduction, Simulacra and Simulation, The Perfect Crime, and The Ecstasy of Communication.
""How do you know?""
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
September 17, 2026 at 3:42 PM
""How do you know?""
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Belief is an absurd concept, of the same type as motivation, need, instinct, i.e, drive, desire, and, God knows what else - facile tautologies that hide from us the fact that our actions are never grounded psychologically in belief, but in stakes and challenges."
- Seduction
- Seduction
September 17, 2026 at 3:12 PM
"Belief is an absurd concept, of the same type as motivation, need, instinct, i.e, drive, desire, and, God knows what else - facile tautologies that hide from us the fact that our actions are never grounded psychologically in belief, but in stakes and challenges."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The Secret Vestiges of Perfection The hope of theory is that, by impressing upon formalism a sufficiently high degree of symmetry, while preserving its coherence, it might be possible to determine the perfect equation of the world in unequivocal fashion."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
September 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM
"The Secret Vestiges of Perfection The hope of theory is that, by impressing upon formalism a sufficiently high degree of symmetry, while preserving its coherence, it might be possible to determine the perfect equation of the world in unequivocal fashion."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"To leave it the initiative of its own death, is to leave it all the privileges of revolution."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
September 17, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"To leave it the initiative of its own death, is to leave it all the privileges of revolution."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"But is not such pleasure the axiomatics of a decoded sexual universe - the feminine and liberating reference produced by the gradual enfeeblement of the Law, the Law becoming an injunction to pleasure after having been its interdiction."
- Seduction
- Seduction
September 17, 2026 at 1:42 PM
"But is not such pleasure the axiomatics of a decoded sexual universe - the feminine and liberating reference produced by the gradual enfeeblement of the Law, the Law becoming an injunction to pleasure after having been its interdiction."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"By contrast with the cinema, which is still blessed (but less and less so because more and more contaminated by TV) with an intense imaginary - because the cinema is an image."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
September 17, 2026 at 1:12 PM
"By contrast with the cinema, which is still blessed (but less and less so because more and more contaminated by TV) with an intense imaginary - because the cinema is an image."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"It is true that in our culture the sexual has triumphed over seduction, and annexed it as a subaltern form."
- Seduction
- Seduction
September 17, 2026 at 12:42 PM
"It is true that in our culture the sexual has triumphed over seduction, and annexed it as a subaltern form."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"And yet to speak of repressed or sublimated sexuality in primitive, feudal or other societies, or simply to speak of "sexuality" and the unconscious in such cases, is a sign of profound stupidity."
- Seduction
- Seduction
September 17, 2026 at 12:12 PM
"And yet to speak of repressed or sublimated sexuality in primitive, feudal or other societies, or simply to speak of "sexuality" and the unconscious in such cases, is a sign of profound stupidity."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The whole discovery of the psychological, whose complexity can extend ad infinitum, comes from nothing but the impossibility of exploiting to death (the workers), of incarcerating to death (the detained), of fattening to death (the animals), according to the strict la..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
September 17, 2026 at 11:42 AM
"The whole discovery of the psychological, whose complexity can extend ad infinitum, comes from nothing but the impossibility of exploiting to death (the workers), of incarcerating to death (the detained), of fattening to death (the animals), according to the strict la..."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Now, the interesting situations are those in which the object slips away, becomes elusive, paradoxical and ambiguous, and infects the subject himself and his analytical procedure with that ambiguity."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
September 17, 2026 at 11:12 AM
"Now, the interesting situations are those in which the object slips away, becomes elusive, paradoxical and ambiguous, and infects the subject himself and his analytical procedure with that ambiguity."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Including the work process, within the prospects of telematic work performed at home, as well as consumption, play, social relations, leisure."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
September 17, 2026 at 10:42 AM
"Including the work process, within the prospects of telematic work performed at home, as well as consumption, play, social relations, leisure."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"One could almost say that through a technical excess of good will they are asexual, like porn images."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
September 17, 2026 at 10:12 AM
"One could almost say that through a technical excess of good will they are asexual, like porn images."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"From the moment that the actors and their phantasies have ceased to haunt this stage, as soon as behavior is focusd on certain operational screens or terminals, the rest appears only as some vast useless body, which has been both abandoned and condemned."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
September 17, 2026 at 9:42 AM
"From the moment that the actors and their phantasies have ceased to haunt this stage, as soon as behavior is focusd on certain operational screens or terminals, the rest appears only as some vast useless body, which has been both abandoned and condemned."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"The real scandal is not offending against public decency but offending against the reality principle, and we are not far removed here from the medieval trials in which the gravest crime laid at the door of witches was not that of succumbing to Evil, but that of succumbing to..."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
September 17, 2026 at 9:12 AM
"The real scandal is not offending against public decency but offending against the reality principle, and we are not far removed here from the medieval trials in which the gravest crime laid at the door of witches was not that of succumbing to Evil, but that of succumbing to..."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"That is, the car which speaks to you, which informs you spontaneously of its general state and yours (eventually refusing to function if you are not functioning well), the advising, the deliberating car, a partner in a general negotiation on life-styles; something..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
September 17, 2026 at 8:42 AM
"That is, the car which speaks to you, which informs you spontaneously of its general state and yours (eventually refusing to function if you are not functioning well), the advising, the deliberating car, a partner in a general negotiation on life-styles; something..."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"She need not be an actress in the psychological sense; her face is not the reflection of a soul or sensitivity which she does not have."
- Seduction
- Seduction
September 17, 2026 at 8:12 AM
"She need not be an actress in the psychological sense; her face is not the reflection of a soul or sensitivity which she does not have."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"The giddiness of simulation, the satanic ravishing of the excentricity of the beginning and the end opposes itself to the utopia of the Last Judgement, complemented by the one of the original baptism."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
September 17, 2026 at 7:42 AM
"The giddiness of simulation, the satanic ravishing of the excentricity of the beginning and the end opposes itself to the utopia of the Last Judgement, complemented by the one of the original baptism."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
"This at the suggestion of the anthropologists themselves, who were seeing the indigenous people disintegrate immediately upon contact, like mummies in the open air."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
September 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM
"This at the suggestion of the anthropologists themselves, who were seeing the indigenous people disintegrate immediately upon contact, like mummies in the open air."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Something else has been stolen from us: indifference."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
September 17, 2026 at 6:42 AM
"Something else has been stolen from us: indifference."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"Ridding yourself of your phantasies by having them pass into reality -- and yet, for all that, they do not actually become real: the `acting-out' merely expresses the impossibility of the phantasy remaining a phantasy."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
September 17, 2026 at 6:12 AM
"Ridding yourself of your phantasies by having them pass into reality -- and yet, for all that, they do not actually become real: the `acting-out' merely expresses the impossibility of the phantasy remaining a phantasy."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
"One might say of sexuality, as of death: "it is a new wrinkle to which consciousness became accustomed not so long ago.""
- Seduction
- Seduction
September 17, 2026 at 5:42 AM
"One might say of sexuality, as of death: "it is a new wrinkle to which consciousness became accustomed not so long ago.""
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Only the inevitability of death renders the example of the animals more shocking still than that of men on an assembly line."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
September 17, 2026 at 5:12 AM
"Only the inevitability of death renders the example of the animals more shocking still than that of men on an assembly line."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Femininity in this sense is on the same side as madness."
- Seduction
- Seduction
September 17, 2026 at 4:42 AM
"Femininity in this sense is on the same side as madness."
- Seduction
- Seduction
"Conjunction of desire and value, of desire and capital."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
September 17, 2026 at 4:12 AM
"Conjunction of desire and value, of desire and capital."
- Simulacra and Simulation
- Simulacra and Simulation
"Radical thought is a stranger to all resolving of the world in the direction of an objective reality and its deciphering."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
September 17, 2026 at 3:42 AM
"Radical thought is a stranger to all resolving of the world in the direction of an objective reality and its deciphering."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime