Jean Baudrillard Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: July 27, 1929 - March 6, 2007
Birthday: July 27
Death: March 6
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.
source: "America" by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner, (p. 95), 1988.
topic: Reality, Opposites, Giving, Fiction And Reality
