Rien Que Du Bruit #41

Aujourd’hui : Les civilisations ne meurent pas | Un avant-goût du paradis | Poétique de l’iPhone

Civilizations don’t really die. They just take new forms. Over time, civilizations eventually morph into something else entirely, but they infuse future societies with their lingering traumas — as well as their hopeful ideals (…)

The idea of collapse is appealing because it allows us to handwave away the political reality of how civilizations transform. 

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