The whole art is to know how to disappear before dying and instead of dying. At any rate, nothing just vanishes; of everything that disappears there remain traces. The problem is what remains when everything has disappeared…like the judgement of God: God disappears, but he leaves behind his judgement…We may thus suppose that everything that disappears--institutions, values, prohibitions, ideologies, even ideas--continues to lead a clandestine existence and exert an occult influence…Everything that disappears seeps back into our lives in infinitesimal doses, often more dangerous than the visible authority that ruled over us.
Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
Jean Baudrillard, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared?
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