Quotes About Meaning

Beaubourg illustrates very well that an order of simulacra only establishes itself on the alibi of the previous order. Here, a cadaver all in flux and surface connections gives itself as content a traditional culture of depth. An order of prior simulacra (that of meaning) furnishes the empty substance of a subsequent order, which, itself, no longer even knows the distinction between signifier and signified, nor between form and content.

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.

Oysa tüm düÅŸleri elinden al?nm?? bir dünyaya gerçeklik egemen olabilir mi? Gerçeklikten ibaret bir dünya oluÅŸturmaya çal??t???m?z ölçüde elimiz aya??m?za dolaÅŸmakta ve bu gerçeklikten giderek uzaklaÅŸmaktay?z. GerçekleÅŸtiÄŸi an ortadan kaybolmaya baÅŸlayan bir gerçeklik evreni içinde ya??yoruz.

The West is seized with panic at the thought of not being able to save what the symbolic order had been able to conserve for forty centuries, but out of sight

All terms with negative prefixes are already stereotyped language.

But when everything is repressed, nothing is anymore.

The 'therapeutic window'. What a delicious term for the interruption of medical treatment! Might you perhaps hurl yourself into the void through this therapeutic window? How about a hermeneutic window from which to hurl yourself beyond meaning. Or an existential window from which to hurl yourself out of existence and the perpetual reasons for existing.

When the real no longer is what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

the objects in our lives, as distinct from the way we make use of them at a given moment, represent something much more, something profoundly related to subjectivity: for a while the object is a resistant material body, it is also, simultaneously, a mental realm over which I hold sway, a thing whose meaning is governed by myself alone. It is all my own, the object of my passion.

L'art ne meurt pas parce qu'il n'y en a plus ; il meurt parce qu'il y en a trop.

He does not define concepts, he does not analyse them, he does not criticize them: he murders them (but the crime is never perfect).

The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. -Ecclesiastes

Tautology, being the most vulgar logical expression, is always the strongest argument.

Her geçen gün daha çok haber ve bilgiye kar??n giderek daha az anlam?n üretildiÄŸi bir evrende ya??yoruz.

Here lies the total abstraction and the source of all domination: in the breakdown of the dual relation. The strategy of domination is, indeed, to ensure that, through all the techniques of communication, through inescapable, streaming information, there can no longer be any response. It is a domination by signs empty of meaning. But, on the other side, there is an equal indifference and blank resistance.

The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all possible means just so it can enjoy the show.

Concordance between a 'real' situation and a discourse ought to be an indication of 'truth', but it is, for that very reason, philosophically unbearable.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope.

Je sais que la poésie est indispensable, mais je ne sais pas à quoi.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Usually it will be something special or unusual. It may be a stone you have never seen before, or a root with a special shape that has meaning for you. You must learn to understand with your heart and mind, not your eyes and ears; then you will know. But, when the time comes and you find a sign your totem has left you, put it in your amulet. It will bring you luck.