Whatever the circumstances of the disputes over authorship of ideas developed in this area, there was an overlapping emphasis on questions of urbanism, leisure and tourism and on the importance of utilising the critique of the nature of the commodity. The others named were much more prominent in the period leading up to and during the May-June 1968 events, when the critique of everyday life seemed to have burst onto the streets. However, consumption was not represented as just a clogged-up outpipe of the production system. But this critique attains its full scope in its extension to that other commodity, labour power. It is the concept of production, then, which is submitted to a radical critique.
Death always makes possible calculation of equivalence and regulation by indifference.
Hyper-reality also appears in the economy, with the constant reference to crisis hiding the loss of any objective standard, whether Gold or Dollar. I believed in a possible subversion of the code of the media and in the possibility of an alternate speech and a radical reciprocity of symbolic exchange. Today all that has changed. For the masses, the Kingdom of God has always been already here on Earth, in the pagan immanence of images. It has probably never expressed anything but the alienation of the philosopher himself - in other words, he who thinks himself other.