Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard (born July 29, 1929) is a cultural theorist and philosopher. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.

Quotations

• "Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization."
• "Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the ?good use? of the social!"
• "One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will remain attached to our seats."
• "For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it."
• Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland.... Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. -- Simulacra and Simulation p. 12-13