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„Мы отныне лишь безответственные пользователи стремящихся к нулю жестов и усилий.“

„Нет ничего более таинственного, чем телевизор, работающий в пустой комнате, это еще более странно, чем человек, разговаривающий сам с собой, и женщина, которая о чем-то мечтает, стоя у плиты.“

„Каждая старинная вещь красива просто потому, что она дожила до наших дней.“

„Все — соблазн, и нет ничего, кроме соблазна.“

„Вещи стали сложнее, чем действия человека по отношению к ним.“

„Вещи — это бытовая мифология, в которой гасится наш страх времени и смерти.“

„И народа больше нет - есть масса, освобожденные от каких-либо высоких идеалов.“

„В современном обществе индивиды уже более не соперничают друг с другом в обладании благами; они самореализуются в своём потреблении.“

„Зеркало придает пространству завершенность.“

„Человек не свободен от своих вещей, вещи не свободны от человека.“

„«Прекрасная вещь» — скажет коллекционер, а отнюдь не «прекрасная статуэтка».“

„Раз политическая экономия есть наибо­лее последовательная попытка покончить со смертью, то ясно, что одна лишь смерть может покончить с политической экономией“

„С потреблением мы оказываемся в обществе распространившейся, тотальной конкуренции, которая действует на всех уровнях — на экономическом, на уровне знания, желания, тела, знаков, импульсов; все вещи отныне производятся как меновые ценности в непрерывном процессе дифференциации и сверхдифференциации.“

„Становясь совершенной, форма отводит человеку роль стороннего созерцателя собственного могущества.“

„Соблазнять означает слабеть, «разваливаться.»“

“There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.”

“It is the saddest sight in the world. Sadder than destitution, sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honour of sharing or disputing each other’s food. He who eats alone is dead”

“the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.”

“Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”

“Watergate was thus nothing but a lure held out by the system to catch its adversaries - a simulation of scandal for regenerative ends.”

“Forgetting extermination is part of extermination”

“Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.”

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

“The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.”

“Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.”

“Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.”

“Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.”

“Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.”

“All societies end up wearing masks.”

“This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.”

“Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.”

“One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will remain attached to our seats.”

“One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.”

“It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours: The desert of the real itself.”

“So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.”

“THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING TO PRO-DUCE. In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret.”

“The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and petit bourgeois classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology…. The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!”

“Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. Admittedly, there is the primal shock of the deserts and the dazzle of California, but when this is gone, the secondary brilliance of the journey begins, that of the excessive, pitiless distance, the infinity of anonymous faces and distances, or of certain miraculous geological formations, which ultimately testify to no human will, while keeping intact an image of upheaval. This form of travel admits of no exceptions: when it runs up against a known face, a familiar landscape, or some decipherable message, the spell is broken: the amnesic, ascetic, asymptotic charm of disappearance succumbs to affect and worldly semiology.”

“When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.”

“Distinctive signs, full signs, never seduce us.”

“This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere - that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their real childishness.”

“This realistic image, however, does not catch at all what really is, but what should not be - death and misery - what should not exist, from our moral and humanistic point of view. And at the same time making an aesthetic and commercial, perfectly immoral use and abuse of this misery. Images that actually testify, behind their pretended "objectivity", of a deep denial of the real, and of an equal denial of the image - assigned to present what does not even want to be represented, assigned to the rape of the real by burglary.”

“…we are in a logic of simulation, which no longer has anything to do with a logic of facts and an order of reason. Simulation is characterized by a precession of the model, of all the models based on the merest fact - the models come first, their circulation, orbital like that of the bomb, constitutes the genuine magnetic field of the event. The facts no longer have a specific trajectory, they are born at the intersection of models, a single fact can be engendered by all the models at once.”