• Science and Technology

  Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data - i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exh

  3.9 · 61 votes · 51 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired

  3.1 · 64 votes · 89 reads

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• Nature

  Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

  4.3 · 8 votes · 78 reads

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• Countries

  Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

  4.8 · 37 votes · 182 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

  3.7 · 33 votes · 104 reads

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• Defects

  Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of acci

  4.0 · 41 votes · 145 reads

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• Nature

  Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.

  3.5 · 64 votes · 163 reads

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• Society

  Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and

  4.3 · 37 votes · 143 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we shall n

  3.7 · 31 votes · 150 reads

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• Virtues

  Genius is childhood recaptured.

  3.0 · 63 votes · 179 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.

  3.4 · 46 votes · 0 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers - and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is

  3.8 · 58 votes · 194 reads

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• Society

  I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

  4.2 · 30 votes · 108 reads

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• Various

  If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.

  4.4 · 14 votes · 142 reads

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• Nature

  If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were there the slightest possibility that another rival or superior species might appear, on earth or elsewhere

  3.4 · 35 votes · 82 reads

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• Feelings

  If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

  3.4 · 46 votes · 157 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.

  4.1 · 53 votes · 24 reads

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• Government and Politics

  It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

  4.6 · 51 votes · 13 reads

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• Various

  Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

  4.4 · 27 votes · 59 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably

  3.3 · 53 votes · 8 reads

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• Nature

  Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

  3.8 · 35 votes · 38 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  4.6 · 62 votes · 99 reads

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• Feelings

  Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

  4.7 · 31 votes · 69 reads

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• Government and Politics

  The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

  3.1 · 26 votes · 91 reads

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• Society

  The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

  4.8 · 20 votes · 99 reads

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• Government and Politics

  The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

  5.0 · 10 votes · 97 reads

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• Art and Culture

  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 silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters - there is

  4.3 · 7 votes · 24 reads

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• Society

  The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

  3.4 · 15 votes · 113 reads

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• Society

  The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes op

  4.0 · 19 votes · 128 reads

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• Virtues

  The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relational -to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pin

  4.4 · 53 votes · 72 reads

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• Science and Technology

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

  3.4 · 22 votes · 48 reads

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• Society

  The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and

  3.1 · 24 votes · 184 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

  3.5 · 21 votes · 89 reads

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• Time

  The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

  4.9 · 7 votes · 54 reads

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• Feelings

  There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

  3.4 · 36 votes · 177 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

  3.4 · 30 votes · 6 reads

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• Feelings

  To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

  3.5 · 25 votes · 35 reads

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• Defects

  We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

  5.0 · 29 votes · 84 reads

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• Nature

  We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pil

  3.7 · 18 votes · 140 reads

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• Virtues

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

  3.2 · 26 votes · 72 reads

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