What is communication? -- On the theory of communication -- Line and surface -- The codified world -- Criteria--crisis--criticism -- Habit : the true aesthetic criterion -- Betrayal -- The future of writing -- Images in the new media -- On the crisis of our models -- Change of paradigms -- Taking up residence in homelessness -- Exile and creativity -- A new imagination -- Mythical, historical, and posthistorical existence -- Photography and history -- A historiography revised -- The vanity of history -- On the end of history -- Waiting for Kafka -- Orders of magnitude and humanism -- Celebrating -- Designing cities -- Humanizations -- Essays -- In search of meaning (philosophical self-portrait).