Background Image
But What If God Himself Can Be Simulated, That Is To Say Can Be Reduced To Signs That Constitute Faith? Then The Whole System Becomes Weightless, It Is No Longer Anything But A Gigantic Simulacrum - Not Unreal, But Simulacrum, That Is To Say Never Exchanged For The Real, But Exchanged For Itself, In An Uninterrupted Circuit Without Reference Or Circumference.
-Jean Baudrillard
Please Wait....
Translating....

But What If God Himself Can Be

Jean Baudrillard
But What If God Himself Can Be Simulated, That Is To Say Can Be Reduced To Signs That Constitute Faith? Then The Whole System Becomes Weightless, It Is No Longer Anything But A Gigantic Simulacrum - Not Unreal, But Simulacrum, That Is To Say Never Exchanged For The Real, But Exchanged For Itself, In An Uninterrupted Circuit Without Reference Or Circumference.
Views: 2
Topic
Real
What If
Simulacrum
More From Jean Baudrillard
The Neighborhood Is Nothing But A Protective Zone- Remodeling, Disinfection, A Snobbish And Hygenic Design- But Above All In A Figurative Sense: It Is A Machine For Making Emptiness.
Design
Machines
Emptiness
If You Are Prepared To Accept The Consequences Of Your Dreams Then You Must Still Regard America Today With The Same Naive Enthusiasm As The Generations That Discovered The New World.
Dream
Discovery
America
Depression Moods Lead, Almost Invariably, To Accidents. But, When They Occur, Our Mood Changes Again, Since The Accident Shows We Can Draw The World In Our Wake, And That We Still Retain Some Degree Of Power Even When Our Spirits Are Low. A Series Of Accidents Creates A Positively Light-hearted State, Out Of Consideration For This Strange Power.
Depression
Power
Light
It Is The Real, And Not The Map, Whose Vestiges Subsist Here And There, In The Deserts Which Are No Longer Those Of The Empire But Our Own: The Desert Of The Real Itself.
Real
Empires
Here And There
At The Heart Of Pornography Is Sexuality Haunted By Its Own Disappearance.
Heart
Sexuality
Pornography
Trending Author
Uri Geller
Bobby Knight
Josh Brolin
Pauline Hanson
Robert Altman
J. M. Coetzee
Quotes by Topics
Action Attention Believe Blessing Desire Dream Ends Fear Fun God Grief Hard Work Hate Life Leave Me Alone Men Mind Moving Opportunity Philosophy Positive Religious Strong Thinking Want
Category