The totality of the past – of the images of the past – is the jewel brought as a dowry to a redeemed humanity. "There is a secret understanding between past generations and ours" – secret to everyone, even to the poles of that very understanding

Where theories fail, where cyborgs, brains in tanks, Avatars and Terminators dance without a stage, the real is articulated in the passage. And each passage is a practical dimension, it is the where and the when in which one cannot but proceed, or disintegrate.