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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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 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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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 more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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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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