"Trying to compete in the economy of attention from the field of contemporary art is a naive goal in the twenty-first century."

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem considère le passé et l’avenir à la lumière du spectacle du capitalisme esthétique, devenu toujours plus débridé depuis la mort de Debord.

Je mehr es gelingt, die Anarchie zu bannen, desto mehr muss sie produziert werden.

Iggy showed the error of human existence, the breathless nearness of death, and the lure of fun and action. He was like a much better-looking version of Schopenhauer.

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”