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ssss1- Habermas, Jürgen. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Polity Press, 1987. P. 13.

ssss1- Habermas, Jürgen. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity. Polity Press 1987. P. 13.

When things, signs or actions are freed from their respective ideas, concepts, essences, values, points of reference, origins and aims, they embark upon an endless process of self-reproduction. […] Could it be that all systems, all individuals, harbour a secret urge to be rid of their ideas, of their own essences, so as to be able to proliferate everywhere, to transport themselves simultaneously to every point of the compass? In any event, the consequences of a dissociation of this kind can only be fatal. A thing which has lost its idea is like the man who was lost his shadow, and it must either fall under the sway of madness or perish.

Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil

One of the consequences of decomposition is the release of energy. The decomposition of Modernity was the beginning of this epidemic of liberation that spread throughout all spheres and in which we have detached ourselves from the referential nuclei of things. Sexual liberation, the liberation of women, the liberation of animals, political liberation, spiritual liberation, the liberation of energy: all events are accelerated until they reach a kinetic energy that can expel them even from their own Idea. Acceleration propels particles into a space of total indeterminacy and uncertainty, into a stage where they no longer even respond to themselves. Newton’s second law states that the acceleration of an object is inversely proportional to the mass of the object. That is, the greater the mass of an object, the less its acceleration will be if a given net force is applied to it. For this reason, it is necessary for things to fragment into tiny particles, to become atomic, if they are to accelerate their path of liberation. Luckily in the technosphere this is not a problem since information can enter networks and computers for its infinite circulation and reproduction.