Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself..

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the….

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

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 said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which t….

... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more du….

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 ….

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the sa….

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment..

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….

Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality..

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideologic….

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 th….

There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together..

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history..

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true..

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

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….

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price..

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….

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened..