"Where does the city without gates begin? Perhaps inside that fugitive anxiety,that shudder that seizes the minds of those who, just returning from a long vacation, contemplatethe imminent encounter w
"The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing whenone has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost itsmeaning."--from The Ecstasy of
"When the imagination reaches and oversteps the boundaries authorized by theinstitution of culture, we speak of poetry, of utopia.... When the event reaches and oversteps theboundaries authorized by j
First published in French in 1985, The Divine Left is JeanBaudrillard's chronicle of French political life from 1977 to 1984. It offers the closest thing topolitical analysis to be found from a thinke