The Only Thing Worse Than Being Bored

Democracy Is The Menopause Of Western Society, The Grand Climacteric Of The Body Social. Fascism Is Its Middle-aged Lust.

Computer Science Only Indicates The Retrospective Omnipotence Of Our Technologies. In Other Words, An Infinite Capacity To Process Data (but Only Data -- I.e. The Already Given) And In No Sense A New Vision. With That Science, We Are Entering An Era Of Exhaustivity, Which Is Also An Era Of Exhaustion.

This False Distance Is Present Everywhere: In Spy Films, In Godard, In Modern Advertising, Which Uses It Continually As A Cultural Allusion. It Is Not Really Clear In The End Whether This 'cool' Smile Is The Smile Of Humour Or That Of Commercial Complicity. This Is Also The Case With Pop, And Its Smile Ultimately Encapsulates All Its Ambiguity: It Is Not The Smile Of Critical Distance, But The Smile Of Collusion

Neither Dead Nor Alive, The Hostage Is Suspended By An Incalculable Outcome. It Is Not His Destiny That Awaits For Him, Nor His Own Death, But Anonymous Chance, Which Can Only Seem To Him Something Absolutely Arbitrary. He Is In A State Of Radical Emergency, Of Virtual Extermination.

Man Has Lost The Basic Skill Of The Ape, The Ability To Scratch Its Back. Which Gave It Extraordinary Independence, And The Liberty To Associate For Reasons Other Than The Need For Mutual Back-scratching.