We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse..

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist..

Smile and others will smile back..

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra i….

Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors..

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewe….

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn in….

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence..

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of global….

What is a society without a heroic dimension?.

Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonym….

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the….

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relationa….

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring..

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him..

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity..

Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of ….

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a sce….

America is the original version of modernity. We are the dubbed or subtitled version. America ducks the question of origins; it cultivates no origin ….

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced….

The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everyth….