Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. (p. 57) - Jean Baudrillard

The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value. (p. 43)

For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their simulation models.

Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.