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"The two together -- brains and human technologies -- are colluding in an effort to maximize time-capital, life-capital, in which all margins, all free zones, are being wiped out." - The Perfect Crime

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"There is no other reason for the arrival of the psychic life, conscious or unconscious." - Simulacra and Simulation

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"Formerly, sexed reproduction still stood in opposition to this, today one can finally isolate the genetic matrix of identity, and one will be able to eliminate all the differential vicissitudes that once constituted the aleatory charm of individuals." - Simulacra and Simulation

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"He is unable to rid himself of this fox's tail, which he believed.he had already forgotten." - Seduction

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"In the "verite" experience it is not a question of secrecy or perversion, but of a sort of frisson of the real, or of an aesthetics of the hyperreal, a frisson of vertiginous and phony exactitude, a frisson of simultaneous distancing and magnification, of distortion ..." - Simulacra and Simulation

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"Or is there but one form, variants of which crystallize around one or the other sex?" - Seduction

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"Death being the great natural predator, a species we attempt at all costs to immortalize and wrest away from death -- as we do with all our replacement technologies for the body's organs -- is doomed to disappear." - The Perfect Crime

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"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"And the Bosnians know this." - The Perfect Crime

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"We must keep open the otherness of forms, the disparity between terms; we must keep alive the forms of the irreducible." - The Perfect Crime

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"It is directly descended from a metaphysics that supposes the phantasy of a hidden truth and its revelation, the phantasy of "repressed" energy and its production - on the obscene scene of the real." - Seduction

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"Today, we need a solution to deliver us from resembling others." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"Not to be sensitive to this degree of unreality and play, this degree of malice and ironic wit on the part of language and the world is, in effect, to be incapable of living." - The Perfect Crime

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"So, we have all become ready-mades." - The Perfect Crime

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"The circuits of surveillance cameras are themselves part of the decor of simulacra." - Simulacra and Simulation

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"Today the scene and the mirror have given way to a screen and a network." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"What is more serious is the cybernetic absorption of play into the general category of the ludic." - Seduction

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"Behind this dual logic lies the anthropological dream: the dream of the object as existing beyond and above exchange and use, above and beyond equivalence; the dream of a sacrificial logic, of gift, expenditure, potlatch, "devil's share" consumption, symbolic exch..." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"This does not necessarily result in despairing of meaning, but just as much in the improvisation of meaning, of nonmeaning, of many simultaneous meanings that destroy each other." - Simulacra and Simulation

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"If the world has a history, we can hope to get a final explanation out of it." - The Perfect Crime

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"Although this is no doubt only a discourse, one must take note that the analysis of consumption in he sixties and seventies originated in the advertising discourse or in the pseudo-conceptual discourse of professionals.3 "Consumption," the "strategy of desire" wer..." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"The body is already there, without even the faintest glimmer of a possible absence, in the state of radical disillusion; the state of pure presence." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"And where would one locate masochism, in pleasure or displeasure?" - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"It is so anyway." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"Both have ceased to be either spectacle or secret." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"It is never "everything you don't know and have always wanted to know about yourself and your sex" (Woody Allen), it is that which no longer pertains to the order of truth." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"If hysteria was teh pathology of the exacerbated staging of the subject -- of the theatrical and operational conversion of the body -- and if paranoia was the pathology of organization -- of the structuring of a rigid and jealous world -- then today we have entere..." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"Warhol is the illustration of this unconditional simulacrum." - The Perfect Crime

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"Obscene is that which eliminates the gaze, the image and every representation." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"Deep down everything is already there, in this evil reversal -- the impossibility for all systems to be founded on truth, to break open the secret and reveal whatever it may be." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"Similitude is a dream and must remain one, in order for a modicum of illusion and a stage of the imaginary to exist." - Simulacra and Simulation

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"They had bestowed responsibility for the world -- for its chance happenings, its whims -- on the gods, which left them free to act as they saw fit." - The Perfect Crime

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"In other words, this form of `natural' compromise is as fragile as can be." - The Perfect Crime

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"The king." - Simulacra and Simulation

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"There is a plethora of myths of origin and of signs of reality - a plethora of truth, of secondary objectivity, and authenticity." - Simulacra and Simulation

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"He becomes a pure screen, a pure absorption and resorption surface of the influent networks." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"As a result, difference takes on another meaning." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"And henceforth it is the matrix of the genetic code that will "give birth" without end in an operative manner purged of all contingent sexuality." - Seduction

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"The word is free, but I am not; the space is so saturated, the pressure of all which wants to be heard so strong that I am no longer capable of knowing what I want." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"Yet immanence left to itself is not at all random." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"This movement makes us traitors to our own species, and exposes us to the giddiness of all other species." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"Not an exact, but a transgressive truth, that is to say already on the other side of the truth." - Simulacra and Simulation

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"But that on which it has imposed its ephemeral reign, what it hoped to liquidate in order to impose the reign of the Enlightenment, that is, appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism of meaning or of non-meaning itself." - Simulacra and Simulation

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"They leaned over to see something, to look at the texture of the skin, the pubic hair, everything, but there was nothing to see." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"Modern art exerts only the magic of its disappearance." - The Ecstasy of Communication

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"Much can be said about the objectivity of the genetic code that serves as a "biological" prototype for the entire universe, this combinatory, aleatory and ludic universe that now surrounds us." - Seduction

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"Thought has to be exceptional, anticipatory and at the margin -- has to be the projected shadow of future events." - The Perfect Crime

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"Women's liberation would then be, simultaneously, the liberation of men... Actuels, Galilde." - Seduction

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"Not the result of chiaroscuro, nor a skilful dialectic of light and shadow (for these are still painterly effects), they suggest the transparency of objects to a black sun." - Seduction

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"For the realm of the rule is not part of psychoanalysis's jurisdiction, which concerns law alone." - Seduction

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