You are born modern, you do not become so.

It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.