Quotations Are Useful In Periods

The Loss Of Quality That Is So Evident At Every Level Of Spectacular Language, From The Objects It Glorifies To The Behavior It Regulates, Stems From The Basic Nature Of A Production System That Shuns Reality. The Commodity Form Reduces Everything To Quantitative Equivalence. The Quantitative Is What It Develops, And It Can Develop Only Within The Quantitative.

Images Detached From Every Aspect Of Life Merge Into A Common Stream, And The Former Unity Of Life Is Lost Forever. Apprehended In A Partial Way, Reality Unfolds In A New Generality As A Pseudo-world Apart, Solely As An Object Of Contemplation. The Tendency Toward The Specialization Of Images-of-the-world Finds Its Highest Expression In The World Of The Autonomous Image, Where Deceit Deceives Itself. The Spectacle In Its Generality Is A Concrete Inversion Of Life, And, As Such The Autonomous Movement Of Non-life.

Art... Can Become The Direct Organization Of More Highly Evolved Sensations.

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.

Plagiarism Is Necessary, Progress Implies It