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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

Jean Baudrillard
Identity, Force, Asks
Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.46, Verso

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

Jean Baudrillard
Identity, Teeth, May
Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.34, Verso

Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.

Jean Baudrillard
Fashion, Past, Identity
Jean Baudrillard (1993). “Symbolic Exchange and Death”, p.88, SAGE

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