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While liberty corresponds to the universal, liberation corresponds to the global. Although they are commonly confused, the universal is a system of values that maintains equality on top; while in globalisation, levelling occurs at the bottom: this is, as Baudrillard writes, the Disneyfication of the world. Liberty is found in the symbolic order of the subject, circumscribed in its nature, its purpose and its self-determination. Liberation, on the contrary, exceeds all orders and the subject itself, and goes outside of its nature. It is a process without finality: the distance of the detached particles depends on the force of the release. Liberty was an ideal of Modernity; liberation, that of Postmodernity. Liberty has already been relegated to history, to Modernity, since it has been totally overcome by liberation and by the disappearance of the subject. The free subject thinks of itself and therefore of the world. The liberated individual, on the contrary, is thought by the world.