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

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things..

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

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

You are born modern, you do not become so..

All societies end up wearing masks..

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….

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

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise..

A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afte….

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we can say this: were ….

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….

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..

Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science ha….

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

The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix ….

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

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

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud..

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much..

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have esc….