Jean Baudrillard Quotes
Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and philosopher and one of the most provocative voices of late twentieth-century social theory. After early work on consumer society in the tradition of Marx and Lefebvre, he developed in Symbolic Exchange and Death and Simulacra and Simulation a sustained analysis of the modern condition as one in which signs no longer refer to anything beyond themselves and reality is replaced by hyperreality. The quotes below are attributed to Jean Baudrillard, organized by topic.
Jean Baudrillard on Truth
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Attributed to Jean Baudrillard:
“We live in the desert of the real.”
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Attributed to Jean Baudrillard:
“Simulation precedes reality in the postmodern era.”
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Attributed to Jean Baudrillard:
“Hyperreality replaces reality in the age of mass media.”
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Attributed to Jean Baudrillard:
“The Gulf War did not take place.”
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Attributed to Jean Baudrillard:
“We have to forget that we are dealing with copies; that is the secret of the simulacrum.”