Jean Baudrillard

"One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability."

"Yet there is a certain solitude like no other - that of the man preparing his meal in public on a wall, or on the hood of his car, or along a fence, alone. You see that all the time here. It is the sa…"

"The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness."

"...we are in a logic of simulation, which no longer has anything to do with a logic of facts and an order of reason. Simulation is characterized by a precession of the model, of all the models based o…"

"Forgetting extermination is part of extermination, because it is also the extermination of memory, of history, of the social, etc. This forgetting is as essential as the event in any case unlocatable …"

"The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology…. The Marxist seeks a go…"

"Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction."

"The discourse of truth is quite simply impossible. It eludes itself. Everything eludes itself, everything scoffs at its own truth, seduction renders everything elusive. The fury to unveil the truth, t…"