Postmodernity Is The Simultaneity Of The Destruction

You Are Born Modern, You Do Not Become So.

The War Was Won On Both Sides: By The Vietnamese On The Ground, By The Americans In The Electronic Mental Space. And If The One Side Won An Ideological And Political Victory, The Other Made Apocalypse Now And That Has Gone Right Around The World.

It Is Always The Same: Once You Are Liberated, You Are Forced To Ask Who You Are.

Today, Every Principle Of Identity Is Affected By Fashion, Precisely Because Of Its Potential To Revert All Forms To Non-origin And Recurrence. Fashion Is Always Retro, But Always On The Basis Of The Abolition Of The Passé (the Past): The Spectral Death And Resurrection Of Forms. Its Proper Actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', Its 'relevance') Is Not A Reference To The Present, But An Immediate And Total Recycling.

Computer Science Only Indicates The Retrospective Omnipotence Of Our Technologies. In Other Words, An Infinite Capacity To Process Data (but Only Data -- I.e. The Already Given) And In No Sense A New Vision. With That Science, We Are Entering An Era Of Exhaustivity, Which Is Also An Era Of Exhaustion.