Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDTelevision 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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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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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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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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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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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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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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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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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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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 sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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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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