Baudrillard Warned Us

"The same acts, the same thoughts and the same hopes which brought us nearer to that finality we so longed for now take us away from it, since it is behind us." - The Perfect Crime

"It is the immanence that everything is playing out." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"The play of models with their ever-changing combinations, is characteristic of a ludic universe, where everything operatesas possible simulation, where everything, in the absence of a God to acknowledge his creations, can act as counter-evidence." - Seduction

"It recalls the fate of Orpheus, who looked back on Eurydice too soon, and thereby condemned her to the underworld forever." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"Herein really lies the paradox of a production which was mistaken about its finality, and which can therefore only exacerbate itself in a strange impotence." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"We are in a social trance: vacant, withdrawn, lacking meaning in our own eyes." - The Perfect Crime

"Melancholia is the inherent quality of the mode of the disappearance of meaning, of the mode of the volatilization of meaning in operational systems." - Simulacra and Simulation

"The idea that the slightest thought, the tiniest beating of a butterfly's wings, could be accounted for in the overall programme of creation was an exhausting situation, entailing the maximum degree of responsibility for everyone." - The Perfect Crime

"They merely have the same destination." - The Perfect Crime

"And one would have us believe that television is going to release us from the burden of Auschwitz by raising collective consciousness, when television perpetuates it in other ways, no longer under the auspices of a place of annihilation, but of a medium of dissuasion." - Seduction

"Pleasure is released onlyby a meaningless recurrence, one that proceeds from neithera conscious order nor an unconscious disorder, but results fromthe reversion and reiteration of a pure form that challenges andoutdoes the law of contents and their accumulation." - Seduction

"For Gosse argues: `as thoughts in God's mind, solidified in stone by creation ab nihilo, strata and fossils are just as true as if they recorded the products of conventional time'." - The Perfect Crime

"The Presidente is a fortress to be besieged, and she must fall." - Seduction

"Things work by seduction." - Seduction

"It is, on the contrary, sex that is the debased form, circumscribed as it is by the terms of energy and desire." - Seduction

"God." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Witness the cloister of Saint-Michel de Cuxa, which one will repatriate at great cost from the Cloisters in New York to reinstall it in "its original site."" - Simulacra and Simulation

"One need not want to dispel appearances (the seduction of images)." - Seduction

"The traditional prosthesis, which serves to repair a failing organ, changes nothing in the general model of the body." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Such is the Nothing, the Void, primal scene of the material illusion, and continuation of the Nothing as perpetuation of that state." - The Perfect Crime

"The human body will be able to rely less and less on its antibodies, and will have to be protected from the exterior." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"One must observe the blind playing a ball game -- torball, created specifically for them -- in which they display SF-like behavior, adjusting themselves to each other by ear and the animal reflex, which will soon be the case for humans in a process of eyeless tact..." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"And there is nothing more tiresome." - Seduction

"What is the point of saying that it is not?" - The Ecstasy of Communication

"Resolution of sex into its disjecta membra, its part-objects, its fractal elements." - The Perfect Crime

"This is the current situation of experimental science -- inseparability of phenomena, inseparability of subject and object." - The Perfect Crime

"Pockets to be reabsorbed, segments that the "social" isolates as it grows." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Both languages of the masses, issuing from the mass production of ideas, or commodities, their registers, separate at first, progressively converge." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Put it into orbit, send it into space?" - The Perfect Crime

"For us moderns, at any rate, art has ceased to be an illusion; it has become an idea." - The Perfect Crime

"Our mortal self-absorption with our image consoles us for the irreversibility of our having been born and having to reproduce." - Seduction

"A. Jacquard)." - Seduction

"No more power, speed, appropriation phantasies linked to the object itself, but a potential tactic linked to its use -- mastery, control and command, optimization of the game of possibilities, which the automobile offers as a vector, and no longer as a psychologic..." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"And this is not merely metaphysical: in the physical order, too, from its origin -- whatever that may be -- the world has been forever appearing and disappearing." - The Perfect Crime

"Our entire conception of sexuality may be collapsing because constructed around the phallic function and the positive definition of sex." - Seduction

"Proximity of human beings and their remote action: settle all your business at the other end of the world, via an ectoplasmic intermediary." - The Perfect Crime

"Thus it happens that in a surfeit of emotion he launches into a panegyric to female beauty in its infinite divisibility, detailed in its' minute erotic variations, and then assembled into a single figure, within the heated imagination of an inflamed desire." - Seduction

"They were, besides, quite different; neither beings nor colours nor shapes were the same." - The Perfect Crime

"Being an idol; she must be gilded and adored." - Seduction

"In fact, the panther of the mythical scent is simply the epicenter of death, and from this weakness subtle fragrances emerge." - Seduction

"Gaming does not require us to believe in it, any more than we are called on to believe in appearances once they present themselves as such (in art, for example)." - The Perfect Crime

"This is the case with the cheater, who denies or, even better, profanes the game's ceremonial conventions for economic reasons (or psychological reasons, if he cheats simply for the pleasure of winning), and thereby restores the laws of the real world." - Seduction

"We can no longer even imagine the brutality of the creative act, but God has perhaps taken this into account and, in compensation, provided us with a simulacrum of history, to make man's existence bearable to him." - The Perfect Crime

"If we can have any hope of staving off this process, it is by making people a little more enigmatic to themselves, a little more alien one to another." - The Perfect Crime

"The West is seized with panic at the thought of not being able to save what the symbolic order had been able to conserve for forty centuries, but out of sight and far from the light of day." - Simulacra and Simulation

"That is politically correct, but intellectually anachronistic." - The Perfect Crime

"There is another type of indirect reverberation: hypnosis, a sort of psychic mirror in which, once again, the girl is reflected without her awareness, under someone else's gaze: Today my eyes have for the first time rested upon her." - Seduction

"It says: "I know what you want to be seduced, and I will seduce you."" - The Ecstasy of Communication

"Behind a performative and demonstrative logic: the obsession with historical fidelity, with a perfect rendering (as elsewhere the obsession with real time or with the minute quotidianeity of Jeanne Hilmann doing the dishes), this negative and implacable fidelity to th..." - Simulacra and Simulation