When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning..

At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance..

The desert is no longer a landscape, it is a pure form produced by the abstraction of all others..

The desert is a natural extension of the inner silence of the body..

Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the ….

Genius is childhood recaptured..

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of pl….

It is in love with its limitless horizontality, as New York may be with its verticality..

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is….

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security..

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous..

Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou à l'absurd….