America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth. Having known no primitive accumulation of time, it lives in a perpetual present.
Jean BaudrillardInformation can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.
Jean BaudrillardDemocracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
Jean BaudrillardWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
Jean BaudrillardKitschis one of the major categories of the modern object. Knick-knacks, rustic odds-and-ends, souvenirs, lampshades, and African masks: the kitsch-object is collectively this whole plethora of "trashy," sham or faked objects, this whole museum of junk which proliferates everywhere.... Kitsch is the equivalent to the "clichรฉ" in discourse.
Jean Baudrillard