Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.