3.08.2007

Jean Baudrillard - RIP

the man who inspired matrix (in which neo picks up a simulated copy of his book "simulacra and simulations") has passed on from the hyper-real to the unreal.

some quotes in his memory:

What is freedom? We have a choice between buying one car or buying another car? It’s a simulation of freedom.

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.

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

Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!

One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will remain attached to our seats.

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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