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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDYou are born modern, you do not become so.
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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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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 sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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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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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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