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But this aura of an artificial menace was still necessary to conceal that they [Presidents] were no longer anything but the mannequins of power. Forme...more

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What is man if the signs that predate him have such power? A human race has to invent sacrifices equal to the natural cataclysmic order that surrounds...more

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In order to understand the intensity of ritual forms, one must rid oneself of the idea that all happiness derives from nature, and all pleasure from t...more

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But what becomes of the divinity when it reveals itself in icons, when it is multiplied in simulacra? Does it remain the supreme power that is simply ...more

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We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ.

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The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. ...more

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Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): dige...more

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To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.

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it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).

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it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

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Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential bei...more