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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDCowardice 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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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 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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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 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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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