Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces our reality.

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude which our eye perceives which art reproduces and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.