This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a City without its Daemons, and the Lunaticks speak Prophesies while the Wise men fall into the Pitte.
“The consumer and entertainment landscape dominates everything, but it’s nothing but wallpaper. The real problem is that it (the consumer and entertainment landscape) is the only wallpaper — every other form of competition for people’s attention and imaginations has been vanquished.”
J. G. Ballard