Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.

You have to know how to disappear.

This is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security.

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

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.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.