Baudrillard Simulation Quotes

#1. The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

Markus Zusak

#2. Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning ...

Jean Baudrillard

#3. It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Nicolas Chamfort

#4. Pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the "true" and the "false," the "real" and the "imaginary.

Jean Baudrillard

#5. Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Jean Baudrillard

#6. So, there is no longer striking, nor work, but both simultaneously, that is to say something else: a magic of work, a trompel'oeil, a scenodrama (so as not to say a melodrama) of production, a collective dramaturgy on the empty stage of the social.

Jean Baudrillard

#7. The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.

Jean Baudrillard

#9. Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.

Jean Baudrillard

#10. Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.

John Stockwell

#11. It is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).

Jean Baudrillard

#12. I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

Pete Seeger

#13. It is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

Jean Baudrillard