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Quotes from The Ecstasy of Communication — Jean Baudrillard

1929–2007 France

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Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. (p. 57)

The Ecstasy of Communication (1987)

Distinctive signs, full signs, never seduce us. (p. 59)

The Ecstasy of Communication (1987)

Picturing others and everything which brings you closer to them is futile from the instant that ‘communication’ can make their presence immediate. (p. 42)

The Ecstasy of Communication (1987)

And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret — the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know. (p. 65)

The Ecstasy of Communication (1987)

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. (p. 30)

The Ecstasy of Communication (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean Baudrillard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.