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.
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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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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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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 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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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