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To walk is to lack a place.


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Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.



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To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.



A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.



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The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.



An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.



The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.



More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.



It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.



The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.

The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a misunderstanding of practices.



The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.

The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.





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