Slavoj Zizek - The Fragile Absolute - p. 11

"While capitalism does suspend the power of the old ghosts of tradition, it generates its own monstrous ghosts."

Jean Baudrillard - Fatal Strategies - p. 79

"The scene is in the order of the visible. But there is no longer a scene of the obscene; there is nothing but the dilation of the visibility of all things to the point of ecstasy. The obscene is the end of any scene. Furthermore it is a bad omen, as its name indicates. For this hyper visibility of things is also the imminence of their end, the sign of the apocalypse."

Slavoj Zizek - The Parallax View - p. 111

""Comic" also stands for a domain which emerges when the horror of a situation outgrows the confines of the tragic."