"What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline."
#critical-theory
6 quotes about critical-theory
Discover inspiring critical-theory quotes from famous authors and thought leaders. Find wisdom and motivation about critical-theory to inspire your life.
critical-theory Quotes
"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."
"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."
"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal."
"There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter."
"Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit."