4 Quotes by Jean Baudrillard about theory
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Theory is never so fine as when it takes the form of a fiction or a fable.
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Theory does not derive its legitimacy from established facts, but from future events. Its value is not in the past events it can illuminate, but in the shockwave of the events it prefigures. It does not act upon consciousness, but directly on the course of things from which it draws its energy. It therefore has to be dis tinguished from the academic practice of philosophy and from all that is written with an eye to the history of ideas.
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The most perfect synthesis of theory and practice is the vanishing of thought into the actual course of the world.
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The idea of a clean war, like that of a clean bomb or an intelligent missile, this whole war conceived as a technological extrapolation of the brain is a sure sign of madness. It is like those characters in Hieronymus Bosch with a glass bell or a soap bubble around their head as a sign of their mental debility. A war enclosed in a glass coffin, like Snow White, purged ofany carnal contamination or warrior's passion. A clean war which ends up in an oil slick.
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