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It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

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But what becomes of the divinity when it reveals itself in icons, when it is multiplied in simulacra? Does it remain the supreme power that is simply ...more

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Twins were deified, and sacrificed, in a more savage culture: hypersimilitude was equivalent to the murder of the original, and thus to a pure non-mea...more

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All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

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What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilated on the television screen. We are in the era of ...more

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it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).

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What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced