There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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