“Because, to tell the truth, nothing happens anymore. Nothing any longer has the time to happen. There is no duration left for anything to unfold in. Nothing can anchor itself in the world long enough to make sense. While the present still has a duration, the hyperpresent no longer does. It is pure currency, pure instantaneity. In the age of the hyperpresent, nothing happens that is not already undone by the event that comes immediately after it. In this inexorable stream of aborted moments - of instants separated from one another, shattered into ever more tenuous fragments, we find ourselves submerged. But this submersion is not just suffered passively. It is also provoked, sustained, and even desired by an implicit adhesion to the amnesiac project of the hyperpresent. Self-forgetting occurs through surrender - willing abandonment to the immersive force of the flow of synchronisation. We happily allow ourselves to be taken over by a microfragmented temporality that paralyses us, that inscribed us and submerges us in an eternal present.”
