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“Something escapes us, and we are escaping from ourselves, or losing ourselves, as part of an irreversible process; we have now passed some point of no return, the point where the contradictoriness of things ended, and we find ourselves, still alive, in a universe of non-contradiction, of enthusiasm, of ecstasy - of stupor in the face of a process which, for all its irreversibility, is bereft of meaning.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“A thing which has lost its idea is like the man who has lost his shadow, and it must either fall under the sway of madness or perish.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“Silence is banished from our screens; it has no place in communication. Media images (and media texts resemble media images in every way) never fall silent: images and messages must follow one upon the other without interruption. But silence is exactly that - a blip in the circuitry, that minor catastrophe, that slip which, on television for instance, becomes
highly meaningful - a break laden now with anxiety, now with jubilation, which confirms the fact that all this communication is basically nothing but a rigid script, an uninterrupted fiction designed to free us not only from the void of the television screen but equally from the void of our own mental screen, whose images we wait on with the same fascination.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena