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 BAUDRILLARDThe abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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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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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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