Jean Baudrillard Quotes on Nature
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 nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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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“Yet there is a certain solitude like no other - that of the man preparing his meal in public on a wall, or on the hood of his car, or along a fence, alone. You see that all the time here. It is the saddest sight in the world. Sadder than destitution, sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honour of sharing or disputing each other’s food. He who eats alone is dead (but not he who drinks alone. Why is this?).”
New York" (p. 15) -
“What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.”
Astral America