There Is No Aphrodisiac Like Innocence.

Power Floats Like Money, Like Language, Like Theory.

The Confrontation Between America And Europe Reveals Not So Much A Rapprochement As A Distortion, An Unbridgeable Rift. There Isn't Just A Gap Between Us, But A Whole Chasm Of Modernity.

America Is The Original Version Of Modernity. We Are The Dubbed Or Subtitled Version. America Ducks The Question Of Origins; It Cultivates No Origin Or Mythical Authenticity; It Has No Past And No Founding Truth. Having Known No Primitive Accumulation Of Time, It Lives In A Perpetual Present.

What Is A Society Without A Heroic Dimension?

Driving Is A Spectacular Form Of Amnesia. Everything Is To Be Discovered, Everything To Be Obliterated.