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.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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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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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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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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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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