Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

Quote by Jean Baudrillard

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What is a society without a heroic dimension?

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is...

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is...

You are born modern, you do not become so.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give...

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give...

At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance.

The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects,...

The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects,...

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that...

We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that...

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room....

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room....

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark,...

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark,...

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction....

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction....

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death...

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death...

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was...

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was...

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism...

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism...

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible....

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible....

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness...

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness...

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who...

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who...

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is...

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is...

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising...

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising...

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are...

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are...