One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability..

Power is only too happy to make football bear a diabolical responsibility for stupefying the masses..

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes..

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….

The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty..

Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face..

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get ou….

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanen….

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images..

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancin….

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….

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world..

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is ….

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 constru….

Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal ch….

Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real..

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 dreami….

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored..

Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals alw….

The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pr….

The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circu….