Jean Baudrillard
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"Jean Baudrillard" was a French sociologist, philosopher, culture theory/cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.

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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.

Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the fact you have nothing to say nor your total indifference to others. Let this emptiness, this profound indifference shine out spontaneously in your smile.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

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

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.