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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDDriving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
More Jean Baudrillard Quotes
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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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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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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