“This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism. This is where seduction begins.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“Hell of simulation, which is no longer one of torture, but of subtle, maleficent, elusive twisting of meaning...”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“Forgetting extermination is part of extermination.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
“the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a machine for making emptiness.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
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