Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher
The Precession of Simulcra, The Divine Irreference Of Images
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
“Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.”
— Novalis, book Blüthenstaub
Fragment No. 105
Blüthenstaub (1798)
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