Status Updates From Симулякры и симуляции

"Tribal, communitarian, precapitalist structures, every form of exchange, of language, of symbolic organization... that is the object of murder in war—and war itself... is nothing but the medium of this process of the terrorist rationalization of the social..."

"Because heavenly fire no longer falls on corrupted cities, it is the camera lens that, like a laser, comes to pierce lived reality in order to put it to death."

"... that a head of state remains the same or is someone else doesn't strictly change anything, so long as they resemble each other. For a long time now a head of state—no matter which one—is nothing but the simulacrum of himself, and only that gives him the power and the quality to govern."

"The only weapon of power... is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production. To this end it prefers the discourse of crisis, but also, why not? that of desire."

"It is the Left that holds put the mirror of equivalence to capital hoping that it will comply... Capital, in fact, was never linked by a contract to the society that it dominates... it is a challenge to society, and it must be responded to as such."

"The real is produced from miniaturized cells, matrices, and memory banks, models of control—and it can be reproduced and indefinite number of times from these. It no longer needs to be rational, because it no longer measures itself against either an ideal or negative instance. It is no longer anything but operational."