The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThe 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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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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 real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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