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We are in the «post» era, but this is not a posteriority of the future but of floating, in other words, a time of transition, the swelling of the corpse of history, the feast of the Eternal Present. Augé wondered «what happened to confidence in the future? History, until the relatively recent past, had been written from the point of view of the future: restoration, progress and revolution». But today, everything is sold out: the end-of-season sales, the bestsellers, the limited editions, as well as the ideas, the hopes, the illusions, Modernity itself. We have a Postmodernism that is so low-cost that we no longer even have heroes or idols, we have influencers. We lost everything, we only have our petrified present as a category of understanding ourselves; so minimalist and environmentalist is this present that we even discarded the past and the future, dumbfounded by the ideology of the present and, as Augé writes, «gradually becoming used to the image of a world without a past and without a future».