The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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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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 real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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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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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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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia.
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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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Perhaps the world’s second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
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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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There is nothing funny about Halloween.
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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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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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 abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
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