Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society

Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit.

It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them with a loving caress in his voice?

Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.

Every dog is entitled to one bite.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Body odor is the window to the soul.

Pope is questioning my faith. I was very surprised to see it. But I am a Christian, and I'm proud of it.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.