Create...

Create, says Tate. He misquotes to me Barthes: "he used to think of the world as a vast and perpetual conflict of paranoias"... A little paranoia never hurt anyone, Tate insinuates, nor for that matter a whole lot.

What makes you think of me as paranoid? Could be the way everyone spends his time plotting against you.

Let me tell you about my vision, Tate relates, a vision of the End of History: All the experience of humankind, Tate orates, is a huge cosmic riddle whose answer is — whose answer is Something Out Of Nothing

...and we have only now entered into the age of autonomous and self-modifying simulacra, the moment of convergence between the IS and the COULD BE. Which is where you come in.

U must engineer a System — or be enraged by another man's. I protest I protest I protest I protest I protest I protest