The Baudrillard Index - Bishop's University

elieve in facts and favour pragmatic evidence accompanied by a contempt for
what may be called appearances or the play of appearances, A:85
brutally naïve, the land of “just as it is”, A”28
can a nation strike a pact with greatness on the basis of each individual’s
banal interest alone? A:89
capitalism has turned into a spectacle, P:84
cinema is true in America because the whole of space and way of life is
cinematic, life is cinema, A:101
cities and towns, C2:5
civility superior to European, in other respects Americans are barbarians, A:67
civilized culture, the idea of, does not exist in America, A:100
collusion between images and life, the whole country is cinematographic,
life is a traveling shot, ED:27
culture, the world over, fascinates those very people who suffer most at its
hands, and it does so through the deep, insane conviction that it has made
all their dreams come true, A:77
debt, electronically displayed in Times square, a massive advertising exercise,
SC:133, 135
America in breach of its obligations, but without a Judgment Day for the
virtual bankruptcy, to enter the exponential or virtual mode is to be
released from all responsibility, SC:133
The debt is a satellite, as is Third World debt, SC:134
deep down, is the last remaining primitive society, the primitive society of the
future, lacking a past through which to reflect on this, and therefore
fundamentally primitive, A:7
desert assumes the status of a primal scene, A:28
desert remain the primal scene, even in the big cities, A:63
(an anthropology of its) driving behaviour tells you all you need to know about
American society, A:54
dizzying absence of emotion and character in faces and bodies, A:125
elections, C5:109
Europe and, separated not by a gap but the whole chasm of modernity, A:73
corpse of the bourgeois separates Europe from America, A:87
to see and feel America, you have to have had for at least a moment the
feeling that Europe has disappeared, A:105
everything here testifies to death having found its ideal home, A:31
(is) everywhere now, by media injection, so to speak, in all latitudes and
countries, you run into America now only in the form of a global drip feed,
P:86
fantastic capacity for absorbing violence, C1:176
films, including many of the better ones, are simply illustrations of American
life, A:101
freedom here has no static or negative definition, it is spatial and mobile, A:94
food, obscenity of, FS:29
Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees and, FS:74 ff. (see also Italy)
founded on a radicalization of utopian demand which was that of religious