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The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

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The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a…
It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these…
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like…
An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.
A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.
It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able…
Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and…
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

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