Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDGoverning 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, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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