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.

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relational -to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

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