4 Quotes by Jean Baudrillard about imagery
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There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins.
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it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).
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What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced
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But what becomes of the divinity when it reveals itself in icons, when it is multiplied in simulacra? Does it remain the supreme power that is simply incarnated in images as a visible theology? Or does it volatilize itself in the simulacra that, alone, deploy their power and pomp of fascination - the visible machinery of icons substituted for the pure and intelligible Idea of God?
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