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How does the disorder start? With oblivion. The liberated, first of all, forgets. It forgets its essence, its cause, its consequence, its memory, its future, and above all, its death. The human being, freed from its idea, proliferates uncontrollably from its genes towards infinity with its technologies, circuits, emancipations, rights, ideologies. When this anomaly of radical liberation expands and colonizes all the organs of life (even the idea of life itself), the social body will be weakened by excess useless matter, by metastatic disorder due to the loss of the idea of the organism as a whole. This same phenomenon at the cellular level is what we commonly call cancer. In general, the entire subject dies, and along with it, its own diseased cells.

What is liberated is that which proliferates beyond its ends, an insane or disorderly propagation. It is no coincidence that the Postmodern ethos is crossed by the virulent since that is the fate of everything that loses its idea or its essence. If Modernity brought anthropocentrism with it, today we have neither «ánthropos» nor the «centre» since everything is freed from its reason and its original meaning. For Newtonian mechanics, the further a body moves from its rotating centre, the more its centrifugal force increases (it is enough to free the body from its axis so that it detaches indefinitely). Our civilisation has turned itself into an accelerator of unstable and ephemeral particles that disappear in milliseconds. In our collider of history, events collide with each other, mix, become confused, proliferate, disappear. And so begins the confusion of a humanity that has no past, that, freed from all its already obsolete functions (nature, Reason, death, beauty, history, language, etc.), becomes radically anthropocentrifugal. Goodbye to Modernity, goodbye to that historical moment that maintained that singular balance between Reason and emotion, between science and art, between subjectivity and collectivity (and which has already passed into the archives of postmodern revisionism).