Like Lost Children We Live

What Appears Is Good; What Is Good Appears.

Art Need No Longer Be An Account Of Past Sensations. It Can Become The Direct Organization Of More Highly Evolved Sensations. It Is A Question Of Producing Ourselves, Not Things That Enslave Us.

Tourism, Human Circulation Considered As Consumption Is Fundamentally Nothing More Than The Leisure Of Going To See What Has Become Banal.

No Longer Is Science Asked To Understand The World, Or To Improve Any Part Of It. It Is Asked Instead To Immediately Justify Everything That Happens... Spectacular Domination Has Cut Down The Vast Tree Of Scientific Knowledge In Order To Make Itself A Truncheon.

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.