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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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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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