Jean Baudrillard Quotes on Knowledge
Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and philosopher and one of the most provocative voices of late twentieth-century social theory. This page collects quotes attributed to Jean Baudrillard on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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.”
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“The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is already reproduced, the hyper-real.”
Simulations (1983), New York: Semiotext, p. 146 -
“Simulations (1983), New York: Semiotext, p. 146”
The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is already reproduced, the hyper-real. -
“Vanishing Point" (pp. 9-10)”
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. Admittedly, there is the primal shock of the deserts and the dazzle of California, but when this is gone, the secondary brilliance of the journey begins, that of the excessive, pitiless distance, the infinity of anonymous faces and distances, or of certain miraculous geological formations, which -
“There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends. Some are obsessed by both. Two other positions are possible: only picturing one's end - our own culture; picturing neither beginning nor end - the coming culture.”
Chapter 1