For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.

There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy.

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.

I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).

To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.