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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 1m

"to which the characteristics of automobiles pretend to adapt." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 31m

"They have no need to believe in what they are doing, they're perfect." - The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 1h

"The two bodies are simultaneously engendered in repression, and their apparent antagonism is but a consequence of their reduplication." - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 1h

"Today, we are lagging behind events." - The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 2h

"Warhol is naturally party to this extermination of the real by the image, and to such an overdoing of the image as to put an end to all aesthetic value." - The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 2h

"But this is a means for it not to die." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 3h

"By an extraordinary coincidence (but this derives without a doubt from the enchantment inherent to this universe), this frozen, childlike world is found to have been conceived and realized by a man who is himself now cryogenized: Walt Disney, who awaits his resurrecti..." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 3h

"In a sense, the girl recognizes this since she responds to this higher seduction offered her in the metaphor of her confinement." - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 4h

"Things have to be grasped in their sleep, or in any other circumstance where they are absent from themselves." - The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 4h

"Contrary to what is said about it (the real is what resists, what all hypotheses run up against), reality is not very solid and seems predisposed, rather, to retreat in disorder." - The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 5h

"It is that which must be seduced, as everything else, as God, as the law, the truth, the unconscious, the real." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 5h

"), all the breaches through which the body is reversibilized and, like certain topological spaces, no longer knows either interior nor exterior." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 6h

"He had no identity, and was of indeterminate sex and mixed race." - The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 6h

"No affect behind all that, no psychology, no flux or desire, no libido or death drive." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 7h

"When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 7h

"The same question can be posed for primitive societies." - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 8h

"One could conceive of simulating leisure or vacation situations in the same way that flight is simulated for pilots." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 8h

"A large dose of political morality reinjected on a world scale." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 9h

"A step further, and being HIV positive [séropositif] will be seductive in itself (`This product can damage your health' serves almost as an advertising slogan)." - The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 9h

"Because in the end, throughout its history it was capital that first fed on the destructuration of every referential, of every human objective, that shattered every ideal distinction between true and false, good and evil, in order to establish a radical law of equival..." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 10h

"She develops in herself a higher form of the erotic." - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 10h

"The process seems to reach its lowest point with the~seducer's betrothal." - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 11h

"But this is merely an artificial supplement." - The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 11h

"Here and there, a single nebula whose simple elements are indecipherable, whose truth is indecipherable." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 12h

"The opposition of the subject and the object was still significant, as was the profound imaginary of the mirror and the scene.2 The scene of history as well as the scene of the everyday emerge in the shadow of history as it is progressively divested of politics." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 12h

"Thought would end up thinking only what the machine can take in and process, or would think only when the machine requests it." - The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 13h

"In itself changed by sexual liberation, the body has been reduced to a division of surfaces, a proliferation of multiple objects wherein its finitude, its desirable representation, its seduction are lost." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 13h

"This is the whole ideology of free speech, of media broken down into innumerable individual cells of transmission, that is, into "antimedia" (pirate radio, etc.)." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 14h

"It lies in wait for all that tends to confuse itself with its reality." - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 14h

""Reality" appears as a principle, one that defines the painting, sculpture and architecture of the period, but a principle nonetheless - that is, a simulacrum which the experimental hypersimulation of the trompe l'oeil) undermines." - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 15h

"But isn't there a continuous cycle of reversion; between the two?" - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 15h

"But before disappearing, certain words, and gestures, by anticipating their demise, are able to exercise a seduction that the others will never know." - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 16h

"Mogadishu-Stammheim: the media make themselves into the vehicle of the moral condemnation of terrorism and of the exploitation of fear for political ends, but simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they propagate the brutal charm of the terrorist act, they ar..." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 16h

"The latter signifies the "orbital" instantiation of an abstract and modelized system of signs, into whose orbit all the once unique forms of style and writing will be reabsorbed." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 17h

"Anatomy is destiny, Freud said." - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 17h

"The hypermarket resembles a giant montage factory, because, instead of being linked to the chain of work by a continuous rational constraint, the agents (or the patients), mobile and decentered, give the impression of passing through aleatory circuits from one point ..." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 18h

"This theory would definitively shatter the specularity of the sign; a theory where everything would be played out not in terms of distinction or equivalence but in terms of a duel and reversibility." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 18h

"Now, what can medicine do with what floats on either side of illness, on either side of health, with the duplication of illness in a discourse that is no longer either true or false?" - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 19h

"If sexuality is putting our identity on the line (down to the fact of having children) then we are really no longer in a position to devote ourselves to this task, for we are too preoccupied with saving our identity to undertake anything else." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 19h

"This is false." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 20h

"Simulation is characterized by a precession of the model, of all the models based on the merest fact - the models come first, their circulation, orbital like that of the bomb, constitutes the genuine magnetic field of the event." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 20h

"Seduction is only made possible through this giddiness of reversibility (also present in the anagram), which cancels all depth, all in-depth operation of meaning: superficial giddiness, superficial abyss." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 21h

"Reclusion and confinement: beyond all else he is collecting himself." - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 21h

"Transgression and violence are less serious because they only contest the distribution of the real." - Simulacra and Simulation

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 22h

"Fortunately the destiny of things protects us, for at their culmination, as they are about to verify their existence, they always undo themselves and thereby plunge back into the secret." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 22h

"The fact that Artificial Intelligence veers off into over-high definition, into a crazy sophistication of data and operations, merely confirms that this is indeed the achieved utopia of thought." - The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 23h

"Thought will be favorably replaced by a better system, a cerebro-spinal bubble, freed of all animal and metaphysical reflexes." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 23h

"It is not, then, the real which is the opposite of simulation -- the real is merely a particular case of that simulation -- but illusion." - The Perfect Crime

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 30/09/2026

"If it is characteristic of the seductress that she turns herself into an appearance in order to disturb appearances, what is characteristic of that other figure, the seducer?" - Seduction

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 30/09/2026

"As much as electrical and atomic power stations, as much as cinema studios, this city, which is no longer anything but an immense scenario and a perpetual pan shot, needs this old imaginary like a sympathetic nervous system made up of childhood signals and faked phant..." - Simulacra and Simulation

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