by Michael Templeton

“The city and its pedestrians are now that mass of empty souls who form what the Invisible Committee describe as living in the grip of a specific kind of mood of distance, a mood best named in the Nietzschean term of the Stimmung, a void mood of the void soul.”

by Michael Templeton

“The digital sex bot can stand in for live nude girls, but we always know it is not a live nude girl. But with AI, as long as we feed it what it needs, which is humanity, it will increasingly appear to be a live nude girl.”

by Michael Templeton

“Maybe I am just being sentimental. Or maybe there is something profoundly wrong with a world that cannot make room for a simple ghost at the movies, and in abandoning that ghost, maybe we have abandoned ourselves.“

by Michael Templeton

“For Debré, literature needs to die to become the rat language that it needs to be, the language of the night that scurries beneath the dominant forms, the walls and towers of culture…”

by Michael Templeton

“We understand the weavers of tapestries, but we do not understand how the spider weaves the web.”