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….

One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious t….

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality..

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors..

Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his business, he goes on runni….

It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself..

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

A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a r….

But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it ….

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….

Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its sh….

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

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….

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….

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent wh….

The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remai….

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for ….

Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy.

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberratio….

Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world ….