It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDAmericans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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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 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 exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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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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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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