Quotes by Baudrillard, Jean

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be >>

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask w >>

In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin >>

Quotations about Vacation

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so t >>

The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacat >>

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full >>

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

Baudrillard, Jean