Jean Baudrillard
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
—Jean Baudrillard, America, 1986
Posted on October 29, 2002 at 11:15 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
—Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
Posted on August 7, 2003 at 8:38 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
—Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
Posted on April 18, 2003 at 6:21 AM
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