

“Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation

“That thing was too big to be called a sword.
Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.”
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Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.”
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“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the veracity of living phantoms, of wandering and simulating animals that capital, that the death of capital has made of us—because the desert of cities is equal to the desert of sand—the jungle of signs is equal to that of the forests—the vertigo of simulacra is equal to that of nature—only the vertiginous seduction of a dying system remains, in which work buries work, in which value buries value—leaving a virgin, sacred space without pathways, continuous as Bataille wished it, where only the wind lifts the sand, where only the wind watches over the sand.”
― Simulacra and Simulation
― Simulacra and Simulation
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