In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIf you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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