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To pass beyond the end—into the excess of reality, the excess of positivity, the excess of events, the excess of information—is to enter a paradoxical state, a state which can no longer be content with a rehabilitation of traditional values, and demands a thinking that is itself paradoxical: a thinking that no longer obeys a truth principle, and even accepts the impossibility of verification.
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Dell, E.B. (2013). Troubling Notions of Reality in Caprica . In: Thomas, P.L. (eds) Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-380-5_8
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