The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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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 real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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 sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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