In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.