Jean Baudrillard Quotes on Politics
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 politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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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“Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 15 (1987) "When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy”
The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital , a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes , for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology…. The Marxist seeks a good use of economy . Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social! -
“A series of accidents creates a positively lighthearted state.”
Chapter 4