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Jean Baudrillard war ein französischer Medientheoretiker, Philosoph und Soziologe, der als Professor an der Université de Paris-IX Dauphine lehrte. Er war ein einflussreicher, aber auch umstrittener Vertreter des poststrukturalistischen Denkens. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Juli 1929 – 6. März 2007
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„In der Wüste muss ich die Einsamkeit nicht erst suchen, ich bin Teil davon. Ich bin auch nicht mit mir selbst allein, das wäre wieder die romantische, westliche Form der Einsamkeit. Nein, die Wüste ist für mich die klarste, schönste, hellste, stärkste Form der Abwesenheit.“

Jean Baudrillard

www.zeit.de http://www.zeit.de/2002/16/200216_traum_baudrillar.xml "Ich habe einen Traum", DIE ZEIT Nr. 16/2002

„Kriege werden oft aus dem Drang nach Gerechtigkeit heraus begonnen, das ist sogar fast immer die offizielle Begründung. Aber selbst wenn sie gerechtfertigt sein mögen und in bester Absicht geführt werden, enden sie in der Regel nicht so, wie ihre Urheber sich das vorstellen.“

Jean Baudrillard

www.spiegel.de http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,177013,00.html, "Das ist der vierte Weltkrieg", 15. Januar 2002

„Der immanente Irrsinn der Globalisierung bringt Wahnsinnige hervor, so wie eine unausgeglichene Gesellschaft Delinquenten und Psychopathen erzeugt.“

Jean Baudrillard

www.sicetnon.org http://www.sicetnon.org/content/pdf/baudrillard.pdf, pdf

„Denn die Welt ist nicht geschaffen worden, damit man sie versteht. Sie schert sich nicht um Erkenntnis. Vielleicht ist sie sogar geschaffen worden, um nicht verstanden zu werden. Die Erkenntnis ist zwar Teil der Welt, aber nur als totale Illusion. Genau das finde ich interessant, denn es bedeutet, dass das Denken nur Teil eines Ganzen ist, und dass es für dieses Ganze keine Interpretation gibt.“

Jean Baudrillard

Interview taz.de http://www.taz.de/dx/2000/11/22/a0119.1/text, "Man muss sich vor der Wahrheit hüten"

„Das Reale wird durch Zeichen des Realen ersetzt.“

Jean Baudrillard

sicetnon.org http://journ.sicetnon.org/index.php/sic/article/view/75, pdf

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“Picturing others and everything which brings you closer to them is futile from the instant that ‘communication’ can make their presence immediate.”

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Quelle: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 42

“The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value.”

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Quelle: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 43

“Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.”

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The Spirit of Terrorism (2003) "The Violence of the Global"
New millennium

“For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models.”

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1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

“To challenge and to cope with this paradoxical state of things, we need a paradoxical way of thinking; since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view. We must no longer assume any principle of truth, of causality, or any discursive norm. Instead, we must grant both the poetic singularity of events and the radical uncertainty of events. It is not easy. We usually think that holding to the protocols of experimentation and verification is the most difficult thing. But in fact the most difficult thing is to renounce the truth and the possibility of verification, to remain as long as possible on the enigmatic, ambivalent, and reversible side of thought.”

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The Vital Illusion (2000) "The Murder of the Real". Wellek Library Lectures given May 1999 at the University of California, Irvine
New millennium

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

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1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

“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, to get at the naked truth, the one which haunts all discourses of interpretation, the obscene rage to uncover the secret, is proportionate to the impossibility of ever achieving this. …But this rage, this fury, only bears witness to the eternity of seduction and to the impossibility of mastering it.”

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Quelle: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 73

“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.”

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Quelle: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 30

“We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.”

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1990s, The Perfect Crime (1993)

“Not only does reality resist those who still criticize it, but it also abandons those who defend it. Maybe it is a way for reality to get its revenge from those who claim to believe in it for the sole purpose of eventually transforming it: sending back its supporters to their own desires.”

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1990s, Radical Thought (1994)

“Take provocation, for instance, which is the opposite and the caricature of seduction. It says: "I know that you want to be seduced, and I will seduce you." Nothing could be worse than betraying this secret rule. Nothing could be less seductive than a provocative smile or inciteful behaviour, since both presuppose that one cannot be seduced naturally and that one needs to be blackmailed into it, or through a declaration of intent: "Let me seduce you"”

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Quelle: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 67

“For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it.”

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Seduction (1990)
1990s

“The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.”

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Jean Baudrillard in: Eldon Taylor What Does That Mean?: Exploring Mind, Meaning, and Mysteries http://books.google.co.in/books?id=pTAIRTJbENgC&pg=PA171, Hay House, Inc, 15 January 2010, p. 171
New millennium

“The apocalypse is finished, today it is the precession of the neutral, of forms of the neutral and of indifference. I will leave it to be considered whether there can be a romanticism, an aesthetic of the neutral therein. I don't think so — all that remains, is the fascination for desertlike and indifferent forms, for the very operation of the system that annihilates us. Now, fascination (in contrast to seduction, which was attached to appearances, and to dialectical reason, which was attached to meaning) is a nihilistic passion par excellence, it is the passion proper to the mode of disappearance. We are fascinated by all forms of disappearance, of our disappearance. Melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency.
I am a nihilist.
I observe, I accept, I assume the immense process of the destruction of appearances (and of the seduction of appearances) in the service of meaning (representation, history, criticism, etc.) that is the fundamental fact of the nineteenth century.”

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Quelle: 1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1988), Ch. 18 : On Nihilism, translation by Sheila Faria Glaser.

“The end of history is, alas, also the end of the dustbins of history. There are no longer any dustbins for disposing of old ideologies, old regimes, old values. Where are we going to throw Marxism, which actually invented the dustbins of history? (Yet there is some justice here since the very people who invented them have fallen in.) Conclusion: if there are no more dustbins of history, this is because History itself has become a dustbin. It has become its own dustbin, just as the planet itself is becoming its own dustbin.”

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The Illusion of the End (1992) (L'Illision de la Fin) Tr. Chris Turner, 1994, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804725012, p. 26, "The Event Strike"
1990s

“A series of accidents creates a positively lighthearted state.”

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Quelle: 1980s, Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990), Chapter 4

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

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Quelle: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 57

“The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is already reproduced, the hyper-real.”

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Simulations (1983), New York: Semiotext, p. 146
1980s

“There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.”

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New millennium, Photography, or the Writing of Light, (2000)

“There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends.
Some are obsessed by both.
Two other positions are possible: only picturing one's end - our own culture; picturing neither beginning nor end - the coming culture.”

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Quelle: 1980s, Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990), Chapter 1

“Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.”

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The Precession of Simulcra, Ramses, or the Rosy-Colored Resurrection
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

“It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.”

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New millennium, Photography, or the Writing of Light, (2000)

“Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is a generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.”

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The Precession of Simulcra
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

“Seduction is the world’s elementary dynamic… All this has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance. For what has happened to good and evil? Seduction hurls them against one another, and unites them beyond meaning, in a paroxysm [sudden outbreak of emotion] of intensity and charm.”

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Quelle: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 59

“Dying is nothing. You have to know how to disappear. Dying comes down to a biological chance and that is of no consequence. Disappearing is of a far higher order of necessity. You must not leave it to biology to decide when you will disappear. To disappear is to pass into an enigmatic state which is neither life nor death. Some animals know how to do this, as do savages, who withdraw while still alive, from the sight of their own people.”

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1980s, Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990)

“Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.”

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Quelle: 1980s, Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990), Chapter 3

“If he is this good at acting crazy, it's because he is." Nor is military psychology mistaken in this regard: in this sense, all crazy people simulate, and this lack of distinction is the worst kind of subversion. It is against this lack of distinction that classical reason armed itself in all its categories. But it is what today again outflanks them, submerging the principle of truth.”

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The Precession of Simulcra
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

“Particularly in the case of all professional of press-images which testify of the real events. In making reality, even the most violent, emerge to the visible, it makes the real substance disappear. It is like the Myth of Eurydice : when Orpheus turns around to look at her, she vanishes and returns to hell. That is why, the more exponential the marketing of images is growing the more fantastically grows the indifference towards the real world. Finally, the real world becomes a useless function, a collection of phantom shapes and ghost events. We are not far from the silhouettes on the walls of the cave of Plato.”

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New millennium

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

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1990s, Radical Thought (1994)

“People no longer look at each other, but there are institutes for that. They no longer touch each other, but there is contactotherapy. They no longer walk, but they go jogging, etc. Everywhere one recycles lost faculties, or lost bodies, or lost sociality, or the lost taste for food.”

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The Precession of Simulcra, The Hyperreal and the Imaginary
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

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