The Baudrillard Index - Bishop's University

smile, is the smile the dead man will wear in funeral home, A:34
social and political categories have little purchase in, A:90
(I) sought the finished form of the future catastrophe in, A:5
(see) statistics as an optimistic stimulus, A:87
students, were extraordinarily willing, but they didn’t understand much about
the discourse of the simulacrum, in a way they embodied it, but they didn’t
analyze it, P:80
suffering less from decline in historical passions than Europe is, because
these are not the motor of its development, A:115
terror realized in its simplest most empirical form, the utopia of wealth, rights,
freedom, the social contract, and representation, A:97
the last thing I want to suggest is that America is some sort of paradise,
BL:132
this country is without hope, A:121, 123
thrift is un-American, CS:83
thought of 18 th century (utopian, pragmatic) dominates America, whereas
Europe’s is 19 th century (of French revolution: ideological and
revolutionary), A:90
(is a) trademark, BL:135
transferential sociality, doubtless the only kind in a hyperreal, technological,
soft mobile era, exhausting itself in surfaces, networks, soft technologies,
A:125
transpolitical: from the outset you are in a transpolitical sphere of the medium
and the screen, which – fortunately or otherwise, exempts you from social
realism, P:86
(is a) universe of simulation, a universe without artifice, not even the artifices
of dreams, transcendence has become a control tower, C2:39
(is) utopia achieved, A:75-105, A:77; BL:135
without illusions: that utopia is the utopia of achieved banality, P:87
(also) anti-utopia is being achieved: of unreason, deterritorialization,
indeterminacy of language and subject, neutralization of all values, death
of culture, A:97
Europe’s crisis is impossibility of living up to its historical ideals, America’s
is the crisis of the problem of the duration and permanence of an
achieved utopia, A:77
Ubu’s of their own power during the Gulf War, IE:58
vulgar but easy, neither mediocre nor bourgeois, do not have aristocratic
grace, but they have an ease that comes from space, A:94
walking in LA, you are a threat to public order, only immigrants allowed to
walk, the privilege of occupying the empty hearts of the big cities, A:58
war (see above: America, rule)
way of life is spontaneously fictional, since it is a transcending of the
imaginary in reality, A:95
what is new here is the clash of first (primitive and wild) and the “third kind”