People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted. . .Raoul Vaneigem
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
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