Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult 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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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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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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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 is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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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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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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