Jean Baudrillard - Seduction Quotes

7 Sourced Quotes

View all Jean Baudrillard Quotes
Take provocation, for instance, which is the opposite and the caricature of seduction. It says: "I know that you want to be seduced, and I will seduce you." Nothing could be worse than betraying this secret rule. Nothing could be less seductive than a provocative smile or inciteful behaviour, since both presuppose that one cannot be seduced naturally and that one needs to be blackmailed into it, or through a declaration of intent: "Let me seduce you"

Jean Baudrillard
Seduction is the world's elementary dynamic… All this has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance. For what has happened to good and evil? Seduction hurls them against one another, and unites them beyond meaning, in a paroxysm [sudden outbreak of emotion] of intensity and charm.

Jean Baudrillard
Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

Jean Baudrillard
For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it.

Jean Baudrillard
Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Jean Baudrillard
The discourse of truth is quite simply impossible. It eludes itself. Everything eludes itself, everything scoffs at its own truth, seduction renders everything elusive. The fury to unveil the truth, to get at the naked truth, the one which haunts all discourses of interpretation, the obscene rage to uncover the secret, is proportionate to the impossibility of ever achieving this. …But this rage, this fury, only bears witness to the eternity of seduction and to the impossibility of mastering it.

Jean Baudrillard
And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret — the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know.

Jean Baudrillard