"critical-theory"タグの名言

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.
タグ: prevail, where, everything, life, philosophy, critical-theory
Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit. [Entre l'amour et le vide-ordure automatique la jeunesse de tous les pays a fait son choix et préfère le vide-ordure.]
タグ: philosophy, critical-theory, 1958
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
タグ: philosophy, critical-theory
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
タグ: human, see, more, nothing, philosophy, critical-theory
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
タグ: western-culture, the-west, the-enlightenment, the-dialectic-of-enlightenment, society, philosophy, enlightenment, dialectics, dialectic, decline-of-civilization, decline, culture-critique, culture, cultural-criticism, critical-theory, civilization
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
タグ: everything, more, nothing, world, philosophy, critical-theory