A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Here in the U. S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers -- and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.Jean Baudrillard
At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.
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Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.
Jean Baudrillard
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.
Jean Baudrillard
The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
Jean Baudrillard
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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