The Baudrillard Index - Bishop's University

media, in their potency and primitiveness, P:86
mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet one as afraid to see the lights go
out as was the hunter in his primitive night, A:51
Miracle, collapsing fiction and reality in each other on life sized scale, C3:92
of the obscene, A:8
missionaries and converts of their own way of life, which is triumphantly
projected onto the world, they cannot imagine the Other, nor therefore
personally make war upon it. What they make war upon is the alterity of the
other, to reduce it, convert it or failing that to annihilate it if it proves
irreducible (the Indians), G:37
missionary people bearing electro shocks which will shepherd everyone
towards democracy, it is pointless to question the political aims of Gulf War,
the only transpolitical aim is to align everybody with the global lowest
common denominator, the democratic denominator, G:84
Modernity: America is the original version of, it lives in a perpetual present, it
lives in perpetual simulation, A:76
Moral and pragmatic assertiveness which constitutes now as ever the pathos
of the New World, A:76
if you approach this society with the nuances of moral, aesthetic or critical
judgment, you miss its originality, which comes from defying judgment
and pulling off a prodigious confusion of effects, A:67
if America were to lose this moral perspective on itself, it would collapse,
A:91
most conformist society there is, A:9
most moral society there is, A:9
multiracialism transformed America and gave it its characteristic complexity
(vs. France and its petty racism), A:82-83
mystery of American reality exceeds our fictions and our interpretations, A:98
mythical power throughout the world based on advertising image, A:116
naïve and primitive, it knows nothing of the irony of concepts, nor the irony of
seduction, A:97
nation, in the end will have come from somewhere else, C5:47
neither dream nor reality, hyperreality, A:28
no sense of simulation, no language to describe it, A:28
no critical distance from Europe here, it disappears, A:29
no identity but wonderful teeth, A:33
no seduction, but absolute fascination, A:124
no truth to, A:27
not interested in conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and
materializing ideas, A:84
obscenity of this society is the sign of its liberation, a liberation of all effects,
A:96
obsessive fear of Americans is to see the lights go out, A:50
Olympics as hostage of, FS:41
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