Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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