What is a society without a heroic dimension?
JEAN BAUDRILLARDIt 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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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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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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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
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The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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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.
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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 real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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