Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDThis sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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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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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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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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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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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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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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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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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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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 very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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