Quote by Jean Baudrillard
You are born modern, you do not become so. - Jean Baudrillard

You are born modern, you do not become so. – Jean Baudrillard

Other quotes by Jean Baudrillard

The local is a shabby thing. Theres nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Travel
Read Quote

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
America
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Modern, Modernism
category

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. – Robert Hewison

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. – Jean Baudrillard

By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. – Dan Cruickshank

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. – Guy Debord

Random Quotes

When I was young I didnt care about education, just money and box office. – Jackie Chan

Category:
Education

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. – Svetlana Alliluyeva

Category:
Thinking of You

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see a mouse along the wall
And it abandones milk and meat and all. – Chaucer

Category:
Cats

Lets drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and lets drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again. – Noel Coward

Category:
Courage