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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.

~Jean Baudrillard

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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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What is a society without a heroic dimension?

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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. 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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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Sociologist

Born: July 29th, 1929

Died: March 6th, 2007

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