No Longer Is Science Asked To Understand

Images Detached From Every Aspect Of Life Merge Into A Common Stream, And The Former Unity Of Life Is Lost Forever. Apprehended In A Partial Way, Reality Unfolds In A New Generality As A Pseudo-world Apart, Solely As An Object Of Contemplation. The Tendency Toward The Specialization Of Images-of-the-world Finds Its Highest Expression In The World Of The Autonomous Image, Where Deceit Deceives Itself. The Spectacle In Its Generality Is A Concrete Inversion Of Life, And, As Such The Autonomous Movement Of Non-life.

In Societies Where Modern Conditions Of Production Prevail, All Of Life Presents Itself As An Immense Accumulation Of Spectacles. Everything That Was Directly Lived Has Moved Away Into A Representation.

The Story Of Terrorism Is Written By The State And It Is Therefore Highly Instructive… Compared With Terrorism, Everything Else Must Be Acceptable, Or In Any Case More Rational And Democratic.

With The Destruction Of History, Contemporary Events Themselves Retreat Into A Remote And Fabulous Realm Of Unverifiable Stories, Uncheckable Statistics, Unlikely Explanations And Untenable Reasoning.

Tourism, Human Circulation Considered As Consumption Is Fundamentally Nothing More Than The Leisure Of Going To See What Has Become Banal.