The Archive is the collection of all material traces left behind by a particular historical period and culture which one can use to deduce a historical a priori.

Archive is a kind of thought in which the eye goes beyond things to visibilities and language goes beyond words to utterances.

Automation is dehumanizing — If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Automation is overrated — the oxen are slow, but the Earth is patient.

Automation is good — anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be.

Automation is perhaps a good thing, but one ought not forget that it began with Frankenstein.

Capital is that part of the wealth of a country which is employed in production, and consists of food, clothing, tools, raw materials, machinery, etc., necessary to give effect to labor.

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Capital is always to be kept in circulation — money talks, but it doesn't talk in its sleep.

Capital is anthropocentric but it messes with the part of the human that has a foot in the nonhuman; in kindred, friendship, solidarity, symbiosis.

The City is not a concrete jungle, but a human zoo.

The City is itself a threatening natural disaster.

The City is a place where time becomes visible and mind takes form.

City is the only desert still available to us.