This section of the work is a discussion of the ways in which modern society is leading to a loss of a sense of existence , thus a destruction of what Stiegler calls " primordial narcissism " , resulting in the proliferation of all kinds of individual and collective pathological behaviours . He outlines his theory of individuation ( drawn in part from the work of Gilbert Simondon ) , and the compositional relation of synchronic and diachronic processes , in order to argue that a consumer society founded on television advertising produces hyper-synchronising and hyper-diachronising processes which threaten human desire and therefore human existence . Examples discussed of the consequences of these processes include the September 11 , 2001 attacks , the success of the French National Front , and the Nanterre massacre perpetrated by Richard Durn
Nanterre massacre
Nanterre massacre
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