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“The equipment-free aspect of reality here has become the height of artifice; the sight of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology.”
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
― Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

“Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are
factitious, as their name suggests.”
― America
factitious, as their name suggests.”
― America
“For less than the cost of a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, you can buy a loaf of fresh bread and some good cheese or roast beef, which you will enjoy much more.”
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“Now, under the neoliberal regime of auto-exploitation, people are turning their aggression against themselves. This auto-aggressivity means that the exploited are not inclined to revolution so much as depression”
― Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
― Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

“On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn

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