Quotes by Baudrillard, Jean

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience >>

Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our t >>

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every >>

Quotations about Fiction

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but >>

Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral >>

When I heard the word stream uttered with such a revolting primness, w >>

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

Baudrillard, Jean