"Artificial Intelligence inevitably produces an Artificial Intelligentsia, a body
of intellectually correct, genetically immunized experts, which re-forms around
numerical intelligence data and the digital mastery of the code." #jeanbaudrillard

Baudrillard’s “dead twin” in Cool Memories V poetically captures his later metaphysics of hyperreality. The “dead twin” represents the murdered alterity; the otherness humanity destroyed in order to establish its singular, self-enclosed reality.

"Modularity became a way of seeing, knowing, and ordering." - Andrew L. Russell

The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge