You are born modern, you do not become so.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDGoverning 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 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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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