Jacques Lacan
French psychoanalyst and writer (1901-1981)
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Jean Baudrillard was a renowned French sociologist and philosopher known for his groundbreaking analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication. He explored fascinating concepts like hyperreality and wrote extensively on diverse topics, from consumerism to foreign policy, establishing himself as a key figure in postmodern and post-structuralist thought.
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Jean Baudrillardwas a French sociologist and philosopher with an interest in cultural studies. He is best known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts such as hyperreality. Baudrillard wrote about diverse subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and popular culture. Among his most well-known works are Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism. Nevertheless, Baudrillard had also opposed post-structuralism, and had distanced himself from postmodernism.
Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist and philosopher who was known for his analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of concepts like hyperreality.
Some of Jean Baudrillard’s most well-known works include Seduction (1978), Simulacra and Simulation (1981), America (1986), and The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991).
While Jean Baudrillard’s work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism, he had also opposed post-structuralism and distanced himself from postmodernism at times.
Jean Baudrillard wrote about a wide range of subjects, including consumerism, critique of economy, social history, aesthetics, Western foreign policy, and popular culture.
Jean Baudrillard was born on July 27, 1929, in France.
Jean Baudrillard was renowned for his groundbreaking analyses of media, contemporary culture, and technological communication, as well as his formulation of influential concepts like hyperreality.
Jean Baudrillard’s work had a significant impact on various fields, including sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies, and he is widely considered a key figure in postmodern and post-structuralist thought.
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
You are born modern, you do not become so.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
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.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist