Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.
Jean BaudrillardOne can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.
Jean BaudrillardIt is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality.
Jean BaudrillardPhotography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.
Jean BaudrillardThere are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.
Jean BaudrillardPoliticians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.
Jean Baudrillard