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The Postmodern Anxiety
I think some of these anxieties have receded somewhat. I mean if we think collectively today as you say the awareness of a possible kind of crisis that Seemed pretty likely to occur in the 21st century climate crisis and things like that. There's a certain kind of loss of a collective Futurity Think of the great Marxist projects of the point in the century. They were extraordinarily Empathically oriented towards the future. It's more difficult for us to formulate structurally meaningful Projects going into the future than it used to be. And perhaps something to a commodification itself and what it means to relate to the world through commodification which in a sense is frozen type of reality.