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morality;
Capital has never been linked by a contract to society it dominates. It is a sorcery of the social relation, it is a
challenge to society and should be responded to as such. (p. 177)
the Moebius strip = a surface with only one side and only one boundary component;
the concept of manipulation is highlighted and defined as a floating causality where positivity and
known, it is anticipated;
the logic of simulation has nothing in common with the logic of facts and theorder of reason;
the metaphor of the Moebius strip reflects the reversible continuity of hypotheses that may be simultaneously
true (see Berlinguers declaration and its interpretations, p. 178); thus, the secret of a discourse does not consist
only of its ambiguity, but also of an evasive reference to the position of power;
the Moebius strip refers to the political space, too, a space where there is no opposition, but only an exchange
a parallel between the impossibility of rediscovering an absolute level of the real and the impossibility of
staging an illusion;
simulation is more dangerous than transgression and violence (they only contest the distribution of the real)
it always suggests, over and above its object, that law and order themselves might really be nothing more
than a simulation;
there is no objective difference between a fake and a real theft or hold up;
isolating the process of simulation or the process of the real is not possible;
the only weapon of power again becoming a simulation is reinjecting realness and referentiality (p. 182);
todays obsession with the survival of power becomes greater the more it disappears; the result of some