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- The flaneur has stopped going for walks, stays at home on his phone. The revery of the stroll has been replaced by the revery of the scroll.
- The industrialized city becomes the prism for literary experience, literary phenomenology, in the 19th century; its hegemony is now over. We can hold the new prism in our hands. Everyone with an Internet connection becomes a new Baudelaire, thriving in the cesspool of digital humanity.
- Beauty has been driven into the hills by Efficiency — when will its partisan band strike back?
- Where has all the pleasure in being alive gone? One senses that it was extinguished — the organic spontaneity of the embodied the soul, the joy of the creature.
