Burying the dead, creating the past -- "Forget about it" -- Presence -- Spots of time -- Thirsting for deeds: Schiller and the historical sublime -- Into cleanness leaping: the vertiginous urge to commit history -- Inventing the new from the old -- Crossing the wires in the pleasure machine -- Our own best enemy: how humans energize their evolution.
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