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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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…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing a mountain, making some sex...more

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We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everythin...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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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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Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): dige...more

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It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.

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Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.