Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.
Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much. - Jean Baudrillard
Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much.
- Jean Baudrillard
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. - Jean Baudrillard
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a r… - Jean Baudrillard
A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a r…
Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real. - Jean Baudrillard
Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.
The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud. - Jean Baudrillard
The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.
Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible. - Jean Baudrillard
Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.
What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself. - Jean Baudrillard
What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.
Welcome to the Desert of the Real. - Jean Baudrillard
Welcome to the Desert of the Real.
All societies end up wearing masks. - Jean Baudrillard
All societies end up wearing masks.
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