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 BAUDRILLARDPerhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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 always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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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.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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