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“No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.”

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John Milton

John Milton, born on December 9, 1608, in London, and died on November 8, 1674, was a renowned English poet and scholar. He is best known for his epic poem 'Paradise Lost,' which has had a profound impact on world literature. more

“Freud thought he was bringing the plague to the U.S.A., but the U.S.A. has victoriously resisted the psychoanalytical frost by real deep freezing, by mental and sexual refrigeration. They have countered the black magic of the Unconscious with the white magic of "doing your own thing," air conditioning, sterilization, mental frigidity and the cold media of information.”

Source: Cool memories

“The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.”

Whole France Heritage Indulge Indulge In Pathos Cultural Heritage

Book:Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard

Source: Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard

“If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.”

Ifs Helping Seems Levels Television Higher Lows Complaining Advertising Diets Exception Programmes Calories Higher Level Adverts Worthlessness

Book:America

Source: America

“A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.”

“The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.”

World Humans Mean Ends Shows Enjoy Race Capable Human Race Spite Scandal End Of The World

Book:Cool memories

Source: Cool memories

“The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body. If humanity's language, technology, and buildings are an extension of its constructive faculties, the desert alone is an extension of its capacity for absence, the ideal schema of humanity's disappearance.”

Ifs Body Humanity Language Natural Silence Technology Building Capacity Ideals Absence Desert Faculty Extensions Constructive Disappearance Schemas

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.”

Whole America Europe Gaps Modernity Confrontation Distortion Chasms Rift

Book:America

Source: America

“Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.”

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