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G. W. F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit

The noise of the media is the symphony of the époque. The baroque of information, our proliferate and viral art. The global agenda, our civic and ideological architecture. After the burial of the humane, capitalist production and digital folklore created a new civilisation. These new humans seem to have reached infinity, shot from Earth beyond Mars, into the sidereal cyberspace of information. At least total equality (or homogenisation) was achieved since there is no longer any distinction between the real and the virtual, the natural and the artificial, or the human and the machine. This is life in the information biosphere of the Global Village. In addition, we are all eco and above all friendly, and in return, the liturgy of the organic liberates the conscience (fat-free, sugar-free, GMO-free, gluten-free, CO2-free) and the digital network, the body: every time more light and more docile, like life or emptiness.

Long time ago, we invented the sky. The earth was not enough to calm earthly uncertainties nor to confirm immortality. The space was too vast to be empty, to have been created out of nothing. We flood it with myths, stories, desires. To fill the vastness of the cosmos, we created an idea vaster than the Universe itself. We called it God. It was only a matter of time before what was once empty became an axiom, a kingdom, a weight. There is no simultaneous place for God and Men. God is already dead (like History or the Enlightenment). He is not even frozen (like Walt Disney) to be potentially resurrected in the future. And death (or oblivion) is not fatal because it is the end of things but because it is the beginning of emptiness.