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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDYou are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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If 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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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