I repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications technologies.

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man.

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.