"Perhaps the movement expressed by Surrealism is now no longer focused on the object. It is, if you like, within my books (if I must say so myself, since who would see it otherwise?). Coming from a position of transcendent objects that confer an empty superiority on themselves in order to destroy, there develops a shift to immanence - and to all the magic of meditations. This is a more personal type of destruction - it is a stranger upheaval, a limitless questioning of self. Of the self and everything at the same time." Georges Bataille

"There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.” Hunter S Thompson

"The alienation of the spectator to the profit of the contemplated object (which is the result of his own unconscious activity) is expressed in the following way: the more he contemplates the less he lives; the more he accepts recognizing himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desires. The externality of the spectacle in relation to the active man appears in the fact that his own gestures are no longer his but those of another who represents them to him. This is why the spectator feels at home nowhere, because the spectacle is everywhere."
Guy Debord

The book cover for Guy Debord’s “The Society of the Spectacle”