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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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The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain...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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Simultaneously, in the most complete ambiguity, they [media] propagate the brutal charm of the terrorist act, they are themselves terrorists, insofar ...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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There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the n...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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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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This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not...more