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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 1970
There are two cases here:
The first is the murder of Augusta Terzi; the motive: his violent sexual fantasies, desires of domination, fear of emasculation (castration symbolized by the cutting of his tie), of being sexually outperformed, of being revealed to be a child, of not being the Father, source of all authority, omnipotent over women, children, and those men rendered into women and children; the desire to test his own authority, an idea inserted by his lover, an attempt…
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Howlings in Favour of De Sade 1952
"Art criticism is a second-degree spectacle. The critic is someone who makes a spectacle out of his very condition as a spectator — a specialized and therefore ideal spectator, expressing his ideas and feelings about a work in which he does not really participate. He re-presents, restages, his own nonintervention in the spectacle. The weakness of random and largely arbitrary fragmentary judgments concerning spectacles that do not really concern us is imposed upon all of us in many banal discussions…
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The Society of the Spectacle 1974
Critics have already reviewed the world, the point is to change it
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