It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWhat 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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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