Power Floats Like Money, Like Language, Like

There Exists, Between People In Love, A Kind Of Capital Held By Each. This Is Not Just A Stock Of Affects Or Pleasure, But Also The Possibility Of Playing Double Or Quits With The Share You Hold In The Other's Heart.

Politicians - Power Itself - Are Abject Because They Merely Embody The Profound Contempt People Have For Their Own Lives. One Should Be Grateful To The Politicians For Accepting The Abstractness Of Power, And Ridding Others Of Its Burden. This Inevitably Kills Them But They Get Their Revenge By Passing Onto Others The Corpse Of Power.

In The Same Way That We Need Statesmen To Spare Us The Abjection Of Exercising Power, We Need Scholars To Spare Us The Abjection Of Learning.

The Most Embarrassing Part Of The Film Is That The New Problem Posed By Simulation Is Confused With Its Classical, Platonic Treatment ... The Matrix Is Surely The Kind Of Film About The Matrix That The Matrix Would Have Been Able To Produce.

We Are No Longer Dealing With Historical Events, But With Places Of Collapse.