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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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Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

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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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The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the real...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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All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

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To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.

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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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it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).

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it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

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What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced

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Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential bei...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