23 quotes
"The 'intense life' advertised by the neoliberal regime is in truth simply a life of intense consumption."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Sovereignty, the freedom unto death, is threatening to a society that is organized around work and production."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Following Foucault, we may define the art of life as a practice of suicide, of giving oneself to death, of depsychologizing oneself, of playing."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Every religious practice is an exercise in attention. A temple is the highest degree of attention."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"It is a sign of sovereignty to risk one's life, that is, to turn life into a game."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Silent listening unites a people and creates community without communication."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"In the empire of signs, the soul, psychology, is erased. There is no soul to infect the holy seriousness of ritual play."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Ritual society is a society of rules. It is based not on virtues but on a passion for rules."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"The liturgy of emptiness dispels the capitalist economy of the commodity."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"It is not honourable to attack an enemy without putting yourself at risk."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Sabbath rest does not follow creation; it brings creation to completion."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Those who devote themselves to rituals must ignore themselves. Rituals produce a distance from the self, a self-transcendence."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"In contrast to festivals, events do not create community."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"The pornographic body lacks any symbolism. The ritualized body, by contrast, is a splendid stage, with secrets and deities written into it."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Rituals are processes of embodiment and bodily performances. In them, the valid order and values of a community are physically experienced and solidified."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Thinking is more erotic than calculating."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Today, to live means merely to produce."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Poems are magic ceremonies of language."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
"Today, tattoos lack symbolic power. All they do is point toward the uniqueness of the bearer. The body is neither a ritual stage nor a surface of projection; rather, it is an advertising space."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)
*Rituals are also symbolic practices... in the sense that they bring people together to create an alliance, a wholeness, a community."
The Disappearance of Rituals (2020)