#baudrillard

[thirdity]

Perhaps the desire to take photographs arises from the observation that on the broadest view, from the standpoint of reason, the world is a great disappointment. In its details, however, and caught by surprise, the world always has a stunning clarity.

Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena

[strictly-insomnimaniacal]

Baudrillard is unbearably funny. Every sentence in this passage is golden

[xanaxfarts]

Boot Boys Biz: Baudrillard Roping Gloves

[lily-of-the-valley-2001]

“Obscenity begins when there is no more spectacle, no more stage, no more theatre, no more illusions, when everything becomes immediately transparent, visible, exposed in the raw and inexorable light of information and communication.”

Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication

[oh-rose-thou-art-sick]

Jean Baudrillard about cats :3

[2087]

Stuart Palley

[stoozy]

[funeral]

One is dead in one’s lifetime itself; multiple deaths accompany us, ghosts that are not necessarily hostile, and yet others, not dead enough, not dead long enough to make a corpse. […] At any rate, we have all already been dead before living, and we came out of it alive. We were dead before and we shall be dead again after. […] Death and life can reverse themselves from this standpoint. And this implies another presence of death to life, because it – not simply an indeterminate nothingness, but a determinate, personal death – was there before and it does not cease to exist and to make itself felt with birth. […] This connects up with the genetic process of apoptosis, in which the two opposing processes of life and death begin at the same time. In which death is not the gradual exhaustion of life: they are autonomous processes – complicit in a way, parallel and indissociable.

Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil