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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.

Dalam masyarakat di mana kondisi produksi modern berlaku, semua kehidupan menampilkan dirinya sebagai akumulasi tontonan yang sangat besar. Segala sesuatu yang dihidupi secara langsung telah berpindah menjadi sebuah representasi.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Seni tidak perlu lagi menjadi bagian dari sensasi masa lalu. Ini bisa menjadi organisasi langsung dari sensasi yang lebih berkembang. Ini adalah masalah memproduksi diri kita sendiri, bukan hal-hal yang memperbudak kita.

Behind the masks of total choice, different forms of the same alienation confront each other.

Kaum muda di mana pun telah diizinkan untuk memilih antara cinta dan unit pembuangan sampah. Di mana-mana mereka memilih unit pembuangan sampah.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.