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“The spectacle presents itself as a vast inaccessible reality that can never be questioned. Its sole message is: “What appears is good; what is good appears.” The passive acceptance it demands is already effectively imposed by its monopoly of appearances, its manner of appearing without allowing any reply.”
― Society of the Spectacle
― Society of the Spectacle
“Now, under the neoliberal regime of auto-exploitation, people are turning their aggression against themselves. This auto-aggressivity means that the exploited are not inclined to revolution so much as depression”
― Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
― Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
“Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are
factitious, as their name suggests.”
― America
factitious, as their name suggests.”
― America
“On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
“Witness, for instance, the establishment of settled ‘alternative’ or ‘independent’ cultural zones, which endlessly repeat older gestures of rebellion and contestation as if for the first time. ‘Alternative’ and ‘independent’ don’t designate something outside mainstream culture; rather, they are styles, in fact the dominant styles, within the mainstream.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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