The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering….

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some inf….

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….

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intens….

One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to pos….

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

Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all, do not hide the f….

As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and ….

Every photographed object is merely the trace left behind by the disappearance of all the rest. It is an almost perfect crime, an almost total resolu….

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and t….

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation within ruination..

If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner. Toys ar….

What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself..

The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentall….

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible..

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power..

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself..

The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its esse….

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy..

Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to t….

The repentant, run-to-seed ultra-Leftists who have converted to humanitarianism, artificial inseminators of the widow and the orphan, themselves orph….