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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

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 [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

Jean Baudrillard
Reality, Opposites, Giving
"America" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, (p. 95), 1988.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Jean Baudrillard
Real, Hype, Giving

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

Jean Baudrillard
Reality, Giving, Imagination
"America" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, (p. 95), 1988.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Jean Baudrillard
Jealousy, Judging, Giving
Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.199, Verso

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.

Jean Baudrillard
Thinking, Giving, Facts
Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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