itself according to state-of-the-art technologies, whose vertiginous prowess exiles all of
us from the terrestrial horizon.
Neo-geological, the ‘Monument Valley’ of some pseudo-lithic era, today’s metropolis
is a phantom landscape, the fossil of past societies whose technologies were intimately
aligned with the visible transformation of matter, a project from which the sciences have
increasingly turned away.
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