the current hegemonic ideologies of language and communication
the proliferation of semiotic speculation as well, and of myriad concepts of the sign, the simulacrum, the image, spectacle society, immaterialities of all kinds
This is now second-degree abstraction with a vengeance, in which only the simulacra of things can be called upon to take their place and offer their appearance
this portentous philosophical phrase or statement is not outside the work but inside it
on Damien Hirst's 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living'
the Bergsonian durée
he introduced durée as a theory of time and consciousness in his PhD thesis, as a response to Kantian ideas (I don't really know anything more)
