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A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

Jean Baudrillard
Successful, Reality, Contradiction
Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto (2003). “Mass, identity, architecture: architectural writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Wiley

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Jean Baudrillard
Truth, Reality, Becoming
Jean Baudrillard (2001). “Selected Writings”, p.270, Stanford University Press

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.

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.

Jean Baudrillard
Cutting, Reality, Fire

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.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.

Jean Baudrillard
Pride, Reality, Order

It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.

Jean Baudrillard
Photography, Reality, Age
"Photography, or the Writing of Light" by Jean Baudrillard, 2000.

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

Jean Baudrillard
Photography, Reality, Suffering
"Photography, or the Writing of Light" by Jean Baudrillard, 2000.

If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we are in base reality would be one in billions.

Jean Baudrillard
Reality, Games, Odds
Source: thequietus.com

The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orphans of reality and malades imaginaires of politics, premature ejaculators of posthistory and hyperchondriacs of the dead body of ideology and morality.

Jean Baudrillard
Running, Reality, Widows

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