We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDWe shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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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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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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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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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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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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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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