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

In its artless cruelty, Dallas is superior to any "intelligent" critique that can be made of it. That is why intellectual snobberymeets its match her….

You have to know how to disappear..

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world..

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence..

Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locu….

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust..

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake….

Protect everything, detect everything, contain everything - obsessional society. Save time. Save money. Save our souls - phobic society. Low tar. Low….

If you assume any rate of improvement at all then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we….

The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire….

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high..

This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is no….

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is ….

As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of arrangements, which ….

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of li….

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generati….

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning..

If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the advert….

A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. Al….

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense….