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But this aura of an artificial menace was still necessary to conceal that they [Presidents] were no longer anything but the mannequins of power. Forme...more

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It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility a...more

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It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a sing...more

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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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The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the real...more

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Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by magic?Why did this American defeat (the largest r...more

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The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. ...more

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To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.

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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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it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

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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

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Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential bei...more