The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition ... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always th...e same meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually re...peat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, con...ceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies... him, or else transforms him into himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, ...etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »