"To be done with appearances is the essential occupation of revolutions." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"People no longer look at each other, but there are institutes for that." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Such is also the secret of the hypertelie, of what goes further than its own end." - Simulacra and Simulation

"This has nothing to do with writing, the seductive power of which is far superior." - The Perfect Crime

"Each system (including the domestic universe) forms a kind of ecological niche, with a relational decor where all terms must remain in perpetual contact with one another, informed as to their respective strategies and that of the entire system because the failure ..." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"Picturing the austral territories and everything separating you from them is futile from the moment that the airplane can take you there in twenty hours." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"The process of extrapolation of the Selfsame and twinning of the sexes (if twinhood is such a topical theme, this is because it reflects this mode of libidinal cloning) results in a progressive assimilation which goes so far as to render sexuality a useless function." - The Perfect Crime

"Or again: it is in staging a reduced ideal model that one hopes for an accelerated gravitation, an automatic agglutination of culture as an automatic agglomeration of the masses." - Simulacra and Simulation

"This is our problem, insofar as this electronic encephalization, this miniaturization of circuits and of energy, this transistorization of the environment condemn to futility, to obsolescence, and almost to obscenity, all that which once constituted the stage of o..." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"Neither an inversion nor subverion of the law, but its reversion in simulation." - Seduction

"Unless, perhaps, we rediscover -- coming to a deeper understanding of the essence of technology, as Heidegger conceives it -- `the stellar course of the mystery'." - The Perfect Crime

"Seduction only comes through empty, illegible, insoluble, arbitrary, fortuitous signs, which gide by lightly, modifying the index of the refraction of space." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"And Jacob goes on to say that "this would have pleased Freud" (meaning: because Freud stood firm on the ambivalence of pleasure and displeasure, it would have pleased him that the anatomical juxtaposition in a sense verified this thesis.)" - The Ecstasy of Communication

"An about-face through which it becomes impossible to locate one instance of the model, of power, of the gaze, of the medium itself, because you are always already on the other side." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Nowhere do they really speak, because they only furnish the responses one asks for." - Simulacra and Simulation

"She is perpetually harnessed, if not by leather and metal, then by the obscene desire to be naked, by the artificial mannerism of exhibition." - The Perfect Crime

"The Accident, like death, is no longer of the order of the neurotic, the repressed, the residual or the transgressive, it is the instigator of a new mode of nonperverse pleasure (contrary to the author himself, who speaks in the introduction of a new perverse logic, o..." - Simulacra and Simulation

"The whole originality of the situation lies in the improbability of destruction." - Simulacra and Simulation

"It is not an objective state of things, but a radical limit of analysis beyond which nothing any longer obeys the real, or about which nothing more can be said." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"There are no more media in the literal sense of the word (I'm speaking particularly of electronic mass media) - that is, of a mediating power between one reality and another, between one state of the real and another." - Simulacra and Simulation

"These images, however, are not caught in a game of emergence and disappearance." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"It does not see that the resolution of meaning is to be found there -- in the form itself, the formal materiality of expression." - The Perfect Crime

"And so, deep down the message has already ceased to exist, it is the medium which imposes itself in its pure circulation." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"All that has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"*6 Same change in fortune as for power: the scenario of work is there to conceal that the real of work, the real of production, has disappeared." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Therein objects shine in a sort of hyperresemblance (like history in contemporary cinema) that makes it so that fundamentally they no longer resemble anything, except the empty figure of resemblance, the empty form of representation." - Simulacra and Simulation

"A single night, and it's all over." - Seduction

"Yet the unconscious, the "adventure" of the unconscious, appears as the last, large-scale attempt to reestablish secrecy in a society without secrets." - Seduction

"This amounts to a whole array of repressed possibilities, and the idea that there is a machine to store them and filter them, into which they go to die away quietly, is a profoundly reassuring one." - The Perfect Crime

"Disappearance, aphanisis, implosion, Fury of Verschwindens." - Simulacra and Simulation

"The sovereignty of seduction is incommensurable with the possession of political or sexual power." - Seduction

"In any case we will suffer from this forced extraversion of all interiority, from this forced introjection of all exteriority which is implied by the categorial imperative of communication." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"The exorbitance of the details attracts us, in addition to the ramification, the serial multiplication of each detail." - The Ecstasy of Communication

""The people" Rivarol said, "did not want a Revolution, they wanted only its spectacle" - because this is the only way to preserve the Revolution's appeal, instead of abolishing it in its truth." - Seduction

"The critique of objects was based on signs saturated with meaning, along with their phantasies and unconscious logic as well as their prestigious differential logic." - The Ecstasy of Communication

""Seduce me."" - Seduction

"Each of these cells knows how to manufacture me; before being a cell of my liver or of my blood, it is a cell of me." - Simulacra and Simulation

"We are no longer in the society of the spectacle, of which the situationists spoke, nor in the specific kinds of alienation and repression that it implied." - Simulacra and Simulation

"But we can assume that behind all this there was a deep fund of radical hatred." - The Perfect Crime

"The increasing cerebral capacities of machines would normally lead to a technological puriication of the body." - The Ecstasy of Communication

"By the invention of a femaleness which makes woman superfluous, makes her a supplemental incarnation, woman really has disappeared -- if not physically, then at least beneath a substitute femininity." - The Perfect Crime

"Sex is everywhere, except in sexuality (Barthes)." - Seduction

"In the cross-play of these three logics, the concept of seduction in its radical sense (as duel, ritualistic, agonistic, with the stakes maximized) must be replaced by seduction in its "soft" sense - the seduction of an "ambience," or the playful eroticization of a universe without ..." - Seduction

"On its appearance in Italy (in 1953 -- it was left unpublished for twenty years, as no publisher would take it) the book was condemned and withdrawn from circulation on grounds of obscenity, though in point of fact there is nothing less pornographic than a world without women." - The Perfect Crime

"Nico seemed so beautiful only because her femininity appeared so completely put on." - Seduction

"The terms we are used to setting in opposition to each other are quite simply incompatible, which means that the concept of difference has no meaning." - The Perfect Crime

"Besides, it would be naive to see an embittered good conscience at work here." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Death no longer has a stage, neither phantasmatic nor political, on which to represent itself, to play itself out, either a ceremonial or a violent one." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Well, from one order of simulacra to another, the tendency is certainly toward the reabsorption of this distance, of this gap that leaves room for an ideal or critical projection." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Schedules, selection, buying are aleatory as well, in contrast to work practices." - Simulacra and Simulation