Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThere is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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The 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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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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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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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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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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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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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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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