Enter The Void Quotes

“So should we save absence? Should we save the void and this nothingness at the heart of the image?
At any rate, removing meaning brings out the essential point: namely, that the image is more important than what it speaks about-just as language is more important than what it signifies.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?

“This is the true break, not a social fracture but a symbolic one: in the advent of an integral reality that absorbs all aspirations towards dreaming, surpassing or revolt.
-The despair of having everything.
-The despair of being nothing.
-The despair of being everybody.
-The despair of being nobody.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power

“When an event and the broadcasting of that event in real time are too close together, the event is rendered undecidable and virtual; it is stripped of its historical dimension and removed from memory. We are in a generalized feedback effect.
Wherever a mingling of this kind - a collision of poles - occurs, then the vital tension is discharged. Even in 'reality TV' where, in the live telling of the story, the immediate televisual acting, we see the confusion of existence and its double.
There is no separation any longer, no emptiness, no absence: you enter the screen and the visual image unimpeded. You enter life itself as though walking on to a screen. You slip on your own life like a data suit.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact