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Everyone seeks their look. Since it is no longer possible to base any claim on one's own existence, there is nothing for it but to perform an appearing act without concerning oneself with being - or even with being seen. So it is not: I exist, I am here! but rather: I am visible, I am an image -look! look! This is not even narcissism, merely an extraversion without depth, a sort of self-promoting ingenuousness whereby everyone becomes the m..
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self-promotion
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Jean Baudrillard |
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It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.
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religion
simulation
social
socialism
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Jean Baudrillard |
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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 as they themselves march to the tune of seduction.
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terrorism
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Jean Baudrillard |
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Children are simultaneously required to constitute themselves as autonomous subjects, responsible, free and conscious, and to constitute themselves as submissive, inert, obedient, conforming objects.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happiness derives from nature, and all pleasure from the satisfaction of a desire. On the contrary, games, the sphere of play, reveal a passion for rules, a giddiness born of rules, and a force that comes from ceremony, and not desire.
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fun
games
joy
play
pleasure
religion
rules
seduction
sex
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Jean Baudrillard |
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8bd389c
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Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.
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resurrection
technology
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Jean Baudrillard |
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0c44a61
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It is never too late to revive your origins. It is their destiny: since they were not the first to be in on history, they will be the first to immortalize everything by reconstitution (by putting things in museums, they can match in an instant the fossilization process nature took millions of years to complete). But the conceptions Americans have of the museum is much wider than our own. To them, everything is worthy of protection, embalmin..
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Jean Baudrillard |
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a00d32a
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So, there is no longer striking, nor work, but both simultaneously, that is to say something else: a magic of work, a trompel'oeil, a scenodrama (so as not to say a melodrama) of production, a collective dramaturgy on the empty stage of the social.
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strike
work
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Jean Baudrillard |
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5e78857
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Mass(age) is the message.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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9d776f1
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If being a nihilist, is carrying, to the unbearable limit of hegemonic systems, this radical trait of derision and of violence, this challenge that the system is summoned to answer through its own death, then I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are with their weapons. Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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Silence is banished from our screens; it has no place in communication. Media images (and media texts resemble media images in every way) never fall silent: images and messages must follow one upon the other without interruption. But silence is exactly that - a blip in the circuitry, that minor catastrophe, that slip which, on television for instance, becomes highly meaningful - a break laden now with anxiety, now with jubilation, which con..
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Jean Baudrillard |
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The disaffection, neurosis, anguish and frustration encountered by psychoanalysis comes no doubt from being unable to love or to be loved, from being unable to give or take pleasure, but the radical disenchatment comes from seduction and its failure. Only those who lie completely outside seduction are ill, even if they remain fully capable of loving and making love. Psychoanalysis believes it treats the disorder of sex and desire, but in re..
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Jean Baudrillard |
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7fadf2f
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Why did this [Vietnam] war, so hard, so long, so ferocious, vanish from one day to the next as if by magic? Why did this American defeat (the largest reversal in the history of the USA) have no internal repercussions in America? If it had really signified the failure of the planetary strategy of the United States, it would necessarily have completely disrupted its internal balance and the American political system.
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politics
power
vietnam
war
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Jean Baudrillard |
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afec441
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But it must be seen that the term 'catastrophe' has this 'catastrophic' meaning of the end and annihilation only in a linear vision of accumulation and productive finality that the system imposes on us. Etymologically, the term only signifies the curvature, the winding down to the bottom of a cycle leading to what can be called the 'horizon of the event,' to the horizon of meaning, beyond which we cannot go. Beyond it, nothing takes place ..
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Jean Baudrillard |
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d47812c
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The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sentence, a complete sentence for a single word...
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simplicity
sublimation
sublime
writing
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Jean Baudrillard |
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e20a942
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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. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending
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Jean Baudrillard |
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21e36a0
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When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.
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philosophy
social-media
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Jean Baudrillard |
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a24dcb7
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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 single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.
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media
medium
reality
revolution
truth
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Jean Baudrillard |
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9297654
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING AFTER THE ORGY?
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Jean Baudrillard |
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fce0765
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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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information
meaning
media
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Jean Baudrillard |
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4f6b816
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For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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1445cf5
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Bir katliami unutmak da katliam turunden bir seydir.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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c2f4552
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Ciddi olmamak ve ciddi gorunmek gerekiyor. Ya da ciddi gibi gorunmeden ciddi olmak. Ciddi gibi gorunmekle ciddi olmayi birlestirenler degersiz kisilerdir.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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2d8679b
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Something escapes us, and we are escaping from ourselves, or losing ourselves, as part of an irreversible process; we have now passed some point of no return, the point where the contradictoriness of things ended, and we find ourselves, still alive, in a universe of non-contradiction, of enthusiasm, of ecstasy - of stupor in the face of a process which, for all its irreversibility, is bereft of meaning.
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nothingness
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Jean Baudrillard |
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476b428
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As soon as you enter the system to denounce it, you are automatically made a part of it. There is no ideal omega point today from which hard and fast judgments can be made. You can see that those who make accusations against the political class are the same ones who replenish it. The class is fed by the accusations made against it. Even the bluntest critic is caught up in this circularity.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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55ac730
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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 events without consequences (and of theories without consequences).
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nihilism
responsibility
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Jean Baudrillard |
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5652f80
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Even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished animals in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them for nothing, and it is on this basis that we are "human" with them."
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humanity
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Jean Baudrillard |
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90e66fb
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Desert is simply that: an ecstatic critique of culture, an ecstatic form of disappearance.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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091d03a
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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Pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the "true" and the "false," the "real" and the "imaginary."
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Jean Baudrillard |
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54a7321
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In the past, we had objects to believe in--objects of belief. These have disappeared. But we also had objects not to believe in, which is just as vital a function. Transitional objects, ironic ones, so to speak, objects of our indifference, ...Ideologies played this role reasonably well. These, too, have disappeared. And we survive only by a reflex action of collective credulity, which consists not only in absorbing everything put about und..
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Jean Baudrillard |
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At the fourth, the fractal (or viral, or radiant) stage of value, there is no point of reference at all, and value radiates in all directions, occupying all interstices, without reference to anything whatsoever, by virtue of pure contiguity. At the fractal stage there is no longer any equivalence, whether natural or general. Properly speaking there is now no law of value, merely a sort of epidemic of value, a sort of general metastasis of v..
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progress
science
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Jean Baudrillard |
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92c1630
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A thing which has lost its idea is like the man who has lost his shadow, and it must either fall under the sway of madness or perish.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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We find the same situation in the economy. On the one hand, the battered remnants of production and the real economy; on the other, the circulation of gigantic amounts of virtual capital. But the two are so disconnected that the misfortunes which beset that capital - stock market crashes and other financial debacles - do not bring about the collapse of real economies any more. It is the same in the political sphere: scandals, corruption and..
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philosophy
politics
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Jean Baudrillard |
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5494909
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The information superhighways will have the same effect as our present superhighways or motorways. They will cancel out the landscape, lay waste to the territory and abolish real distances. What is merely physical and geographical in the case of our motorways will assume its full dimensions in the electronic field with the abolition of mental distances and the absolute shrinkage of time. All short circuits (and the establishment of this pla..
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social-media
technology
the-internet
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Jean Baudrillard |
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f6cdf4e
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The clones are already there; the virtual beings are already there. We are all replicants! We are so in the sense that, as in Blade Runner, it is already almost impossible to distinguish properly human behaviour from its projection on the screen, from its double in the image and its computerized prostheses.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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f0b39bc
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Dussellik rezervine bir anlam kazandiran seyle, gerceklik katsayisi arasinda belli bir oranti vardir. Dusselligin ulasip, icinde dolanabilecegi bakir bir alan kalmadigi ve harita tum cografi alanlari belirlediginde, gerceklik ilkesi de ortadan kaybolmaktadir. Gercekligin sinirlari sonsuzluga cekilince, bu, sinirlari belli bir evrende ic uyum anlamina gelen gerceklik ilkesinin kanama yapmasina neden olur...
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Jean Baudrillard |
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4f14418
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In symbolic exchange, of which the gift is our most proximate illustration, the object is not an object: it is inseparable from the concrete relation in which it is exchanged, the transferential pact that it seals between two persons: it is thus not independent as such. It has, properly speaking, neither use value nor (economic) exchange value. The object given has symbolic exchange value.
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gifts
symbolic-exchange
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Jean Baudrillard |
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68dd5dd
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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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having
reality
simulation
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Jean Baudrillard |
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09b5d10
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Our sentimentality toward animals is a sure sign of the disdain in which we hold them. Sentimentality is nothing but the infinitely degraded form of bestiality, the racist commiseration.
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sentimentality
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Jean Baudrillard |
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8aa736e
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We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.
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christ
god
indians
ramses
renaissance
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Jean Baudrillard |
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ab56ed9
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The transition from signs that dissimulate something to signs that dissimulate that there is nothing marks a decisive turning point.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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1f71bf8
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The strategy of power has long seemed founded on the apathy of the masses. The more passive they were, the more secure it was. But this logic is only characteristic of the bureaucratic and centralist phase of power. And it is this which today turns against it: the inertia it has fostered becomes the sign of its death.
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Jean Baudrillard |
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7863a42
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Bir katliami unutmak da katliam turunden bir seydir. Cunku bir katliami unutmak insanin bir bellegi oldugunu, bir tarihle bir toplumun varligini, vb. unutmak demektir. Bu unutma olayi en az katliam olayinin kendisi kadar onemlidir, ancak bu arada, bizim bu katliam olayi ve hakikatine tanik olabilme sansimiz sifirdir. Bu unutma olayi cok tehlikeli bir seydir. Unutma olayi yapay bir bellekle engellenebilir
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Jean Baudrillard |