It seems nothing can counteract the proliferation of this Artificial Intelligence based on the zero degree of thought.Nothing, that is, except this reversibility of intelligence and stupidity - the latter representing a renewed challenge to victorious intelligence.There is something here too like a revenge of evil.Something to which the tyranny of reality leads equally well - to appreciating any old form of madness and illusion.

Philosophy has never been anything but a disavowal of the reality principle. Up until now, it has been the business of philosophers. Today this unreality has entered into things. This then is the end of philosophy and the beginning of something else in which reality merges with its ironic refraction.

He suddenly felt a pain that was as violent as if it were real. Existence, similar to the stucco angel whose extremities meet in a curved mirror, comes back, almost by necessity, to a state of radicality and silence. The ideal existence is the one that lasts long enough to come back to this point of origin.Those who forge straight ahead will never know where they have come from.

So should we save absence? Should we save the void and this nothingness at the heart of the image? At any rate, removing meaning brings out the essential point: namely, that the image is more important than what it speaks about-just as language is more important than what it signifies.

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.

The politics that enter the university are those that come from history, a retro politics, emptied of substance and legalized in their superficial exercise.

Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.

It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.

it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).