Ｓｔｅａｄｙ Ｄｅｌｔａ<br /><br />“When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning...<br /><br />History is our lost referential, that is to say our myth. It is by virtue of this fact that it takes the place of myths on the screen...<br /><br />The great event of this period, the great trauma, is this decline of strong referentials, these death pangs of the real and of the rational that open onto an age of simulation. Whereas so many generations, and particularly the last, lived in the march of history, in the euphoric or catastrophic expectation of a revolution-today one has the impression that history has retreated, leaving behind it an indifferent nebula, traversed by currents, but emptied of references.”<br /><br />(Jean Baudrillard)