Samuel Posner

“Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are
factitious, as their name suggests.”
― Jean Baudrillard, America

“The equipment-free aspect of reality here has become the height of artifice; the sight of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

“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.”
― Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

“On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn