"Various plausible hypotheses may be advanced to explain this vanishing of history."

"Deep down, one cannot even speak of the end of history here, since history will not have time to catch up with its own end."

"This model of linearity must have seemed entirely fictitious, wholly absurd and abstract to cultures which had no sense of a deferred day of reckoning, a successive concatenation of events and a final goal."

"All thoughts are going underground in cautious anticipation of the year 2000."

"Each apparent movement of history brings us imperceptibly closer to its antipodal point, if not indeed to its starting point. This is the end of linearity."

"This is the problem: is the course of modernity reversible, and is that reversal itself irreveraible?"

"For the radical irony of our history is that things no longer really take place, while nonetheless seeming to."

"Perhaps this curvature of things...."

"...eccentricity of seduction..."

"Perhaps the atony, the catatonia we are experiencing is to be interpreted in the opposite sense, not as a void left by the ebbing of past events, but a void due to the suction effect of a future event, to the anticipatory sucking up by a nearby mass of all the oxygen we breate, creating a violent derpressuring of the social, political, cultural, and mental sphere."

"The beam of memory bends, and makes every event a black hole."

"There are two forms of forgetting: on the one hand, the slow or violent extermination of memory, on the other, the spectacular promotion of a phenomenon, shifting it from historical space into the sphere of advertising, the media becoming the site of a temporal strategy of prestige..."

"But we no longer make history. We have become reconciled with it and protect it like an endangered species."

"When ice freezes, all the excrement rises to the surface. And so, when the dialectic was frozen, all the sacred excrement of the dialectic came to the surface. When the future is deep frozen - and, indeed, even the present - we see all the excrement come up from the past."

"...defrosted liberty..."

"The real object is wiped out by news - not merely alienated, but abolished. All that remains of it are traces on a monitoring screen."

"Television inculcates indifference, distance, scepticism and unconditional apathy. Through the world's becoming image, it anaesthetizes the imagination, provokes a sickened abreaction, together with a surge of andrenalin which induces total disillusionment."

"If you take one-thousandth of what you see on the TV news to heart, you're done for."

"In any case, the under-developed are only so by comparison with the Western system and its presumed success. In the light of its assumed failure, they ar not under-developed at all."

The Unconscious is already something of this kind. It knows neither past nor forgetting, is neither archaic nor archaeological. It is, indeed, on the contrary, a perpetual present, an instantaneousness of all psychic events, which show on its surface in a continual, potential passage 'a l'acte."

"Creating ultra-rapid communication networks immediately means transforming human exchange into a residue."

"Not just by destroying its enviornment and its biological substratum, but by destroying its symbolic space and, more specifically, every vital illusion - the illusion of appearances, ideas, dreams, utopias, ideal projections, but also the illusion of concepts and representations, including those of death and of the body, which is disappearing more ane more - as a result of the immediate effectuation of all these things instead of their symbolic elaboration."

"Up to now, immortality has been mainly that of the beyond, an immortality yet to come, but we are today inventing another kind in the here and now, an immortality of endings receeding to infinity."

from FORGET BAUDRILLARD - an interview with Sylvere Lotinnger:

"History has stopped meaning, referring to anything - wheter you call it social space or the real. We have passed into a kind of hyper-real where things are being replayed ad infinitum."

"the crisis of representation" - the dissolution of the subject

"The other enchanting aspect, for me, is no longer desire, that is clear. Is is seduction."

"Metamorphosis rather than metaphor" - abolishes metaphor

pataphysical training

"Death is an event that has already taken place"

"i'd always kept my distance from culture - as well as from theory. I maintained a position of distrust and rejection".

"I don't want culture; I spit on it".

"I'm a metaphysician."

"I consider woman the absence of desire. It is of little import weter or not that correspondes to real women. It is my conception of femininity."

"Contrary to masculinity, woman has no anxious focalization on sex... she can transform herself into herself."

"The large systems of information relieve the masses of the responsibility of having to know, to understand, to be informed, to be up on things. Advertising relieves people of the responsibility of having to choose which is perfectly human and perfectly horrible".

"Theory is simply a challenge to the real".

"I think there is a destiny of theory. There is a curve we can't escape. You know that my way is to make ideas appear, but as soon as they appear, I immediately try to make them disappear. That's what the game has always consisted of. Strictly speaking, nothing remains but a sense of dizziness, with which you can't do anything."

"If this game didn't exist, there would be no pleasure in writing or theorizing."

"Theory is simulation".

"There is no "reality" with respect which theory could become dissident or heretical, pursuing its fate other than in the objectivity of things. Rather it's the objectivity of things we must question Where is this objectivity? In the so called 'real world' don't things always happen that way? By a divergence, a trajectory, a curve which is not at all the linear curve of evolution? We could perhaps develop a model of drifting planes, to spreak in seismic terms, in the theory of catastophes. The seismic and sliding of the referential. The end of the infrastructure. Nothing remains but shifting movements that provoke raw events. We no longer take events as revolutions or effects of the superstructure, but as underground effects of skidding, fractal zones in which things happen. Between the plates, continents do not quite fit together, they slip under and over each other. There is no more system of reference to tell us what happend to the geography of things. We can only take a geoseismic view. Perhpas this is also true in the constructions of a society, a mentality or value system. Things no longer meet head-on, they slip past one another. Everyone claims to 'be in recility". But the test of reality is not decisive. Nothing happens in the real."

also mentions and talks about: Balthazar Gracian, Sophie Calle, Beau Brummel, Marcel Mauss, Jacques Monod, Paul Virilio, Giscard d'Estaing, MitterandCanetti, Autonomia Movement, May '68, commutation, palingenesis, satellized, the transpolitical, the aesthetic of disappearance, the hyperreality of everyday life