"Trying to compete in the economy of attention from the field of contemporary art is a naive goal in the twenty-first century."

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.”

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them.

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem looks back and ahead in the light of the spectacle of aesthetic capitalism, which has become even more unfettered since Debord’s death.