Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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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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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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