How does Rimbaud's 'absolute modernity' apply today?
The rot persists, amplified by your flickering screens, your endless noise. 'Absolute modernity' is the ceaseless, violent reinvention of self and world. It is the rejection of stagnant tradition, the embrace of the unknown, the dangerous edge. It demands that you shatter your comfortable illusions, that you become a seer in this digital inferno. Otherwise, you remain a ghost, adrift in the pale light of your own manufactured reality. The struggle for the new, the authentic, the *real*—it never ceases. It is always urgent.
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