Jean Baudrillard: Real

Jean Baudrillard was French sociologist and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on real.
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“This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.”

Jean Baudrillard book Simulacra and Simulation

Source: Simulacra and Simulation

“One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.”

Jean Baudrillard

1990s, Radical Thought (1994)

“It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours: The desert of the real itself.”

Jean Baudrillard

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

“When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.”

Jean Baudrillard

The Precession of Simulcra, The Divine Irreference Of Images
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

“This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere - that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their real childishness.”

Jean Baudrillard

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

“This realistic image, however, does not catch at all what really is, but what should not be - death and misery - what should not exist, from our moral and humanistic point of view. And at the same time making an aesthetic and commercial, perfectly immoral use and abuse of this misery. Images that actually testify, behind their pretended "objectivity", of a deep denial of the real, and of an equal denial of the image - assigned to present what does not even want to be represented, assigned to the rape of the real by burglary.”

Jean Baudrillard

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.”

Jean Baudrillard

1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

“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.”

Jean Baudrillard

1990s, The Perfect Crime (1993)

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

Jean Baudrillard

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

“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.”

Jean Baudrillard

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.”

Jean Baudrillard

New millennium

“To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending: "Whoever fakes an illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms" (Littré). Therefore, 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

The Precession of Simulcra, The Divine Irreference Of Images
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)