Cait Rappel

“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

“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

“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

“Each category is generalized to the greatest possible extent, so that it eventually loses all specificity and is reabsorbed by all the other categories. When everything is political, nothing is political anymore, the word itself is meaningless. When everything is sexual, nothing is sexual any more, and sex loses its determinants. When everything is aesthetic, nothing is beautiful or ugly any more, and art itself disappears.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena