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Behind liberation lies a secret: infinity. Things freed from their Idea are condemned to infinite reproduction. Expelled from their orbit, the particles are liberated from their centre and infinitely float in outer space. The Idea is what organises a form; disorder begins with its loss, with the forgetting of that meaning. Each released particle is infinitely reproducible, inserted in the vacuum of space for viral propagation and circulation. What is liberated is free to interchange and fully available to be manipulated and exchanged since it no longer has references or principles. That is why today everything is «trans» since things go beyond themselves and are free to exchange the signs of all discourses, which leads to total confusion and the impossibility of determining stable criteria for things (the logical consequence of the illogism post-truth).

One of the forms of liberation is technical reproduction. When Walter Benjamin analysed the work of art in the era of technical reproduction, he was announcing how the irruption of technique had begun to affect the aura of works of art. Benjamin identified the aura with the singularity, which «here and now» is the core of authenticity, that unique manifestation of distance (since bringing things closer is the desire of the masses). Even the best finished reproduction is missing something: its here and now, its irreproducible existence in the place where it is in that singular existence and nothing else. Even so, Benjamin already intuited that what was lived in the plastic field was what in theory was noted as the increase in the importance of statistics, a technification that was inevitably political. Art was showing the first symptoms of the anomaly that would later spread to the various fields of the human being’s life.