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It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours: The desert of the real itself.
Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.
The Perfect Crime (1993)
Never would the humanities or psychoanalysis have existed if it had been miraculously possible to reduce man to his "rational" behaviors.
Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.
Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
We are in a logic of simulation, which no longer has anything to do with a logic of facts and an order of reason.
Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
Cool Memories (1987)
The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.
Radical Thought (1994)
For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it.
Seduction (1990)
When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.
Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
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.
Cool Memories (1990)
Watergate was thus nothing but a lure held out by the system to catch its adversaries—a simulation of scandal for regenerative ends.
Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their simulation models.
Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
America (1986)
To which Nature is at times given: in its inspired moments, it is God who through his cataclysms unknots the equilibrium of terror in which humans are imprisoned.
Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is already reproduced, the hyper-real.
Simulations (1983)
A series of accidents creates a positively lighthearted state.
Cool Memories (1987)
What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
America (1986)