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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.

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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the h...more

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The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recogn...more

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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very...more

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Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.