"[I]t is important to differentiate between the postmodern and the post-postmodern because the postmodern is centered on rebellion, progressive social movements, tension, and confict, while the post-postmodern is focused on escaping tension and confict through the easy access to pleasure."
— Robert Samuels, Generation X and the Rise of the Entertainment Subject (2021)
"The essence of the philosophical thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, together with the increasing power of the scientific-technological apparatus, has brought the omnipotent domination of technology over every aspect of human life. ... Filling up the void sky after God’s death, technology, however, does not offer any particular frame of meaning, its goals being just to expand infinitely the potential to reach goals and to function." — "The quest for meaning after the end of meaning: An epochal rupture" (2014)
"On one side, we have human beings, with their beliefs, and acute need of frames of meaning, while on the other, the world they inhabit has long ago become fatherless, godless, frameless, limitless, technological, and functional. This gap may be dramatically and painfully reduced when a limit suddenly appears, for instance in the form of an unexpected or premature death, a heavily disabling illness, the loss of someone important, an insight into our extreme vulnerability, or some acute or ongoing traumatic experience. These are the moments when an individual may find him- or herself utterly unarmed, and devoid of any tools to face and to cope with these limits. The illusory curtain of a seemingly eternal, safe, and entertained life is miserably torn into pieces, and the threat of darkness blatantly appears in the most devastating ways. [...] As a matter of fact, since its birth, porn has been entwined with the topic of breaking the limits, those of morality and of common decency in primis. By its very existence, porn immediately started challenging, trespassing, and moving these limits forward, since the first pictures and movies of the nineteenth century. Interestingly enough, this was made possible only thanks to women who happened to live abundantly beyond those limits, being in most cases prostitutes. [...] Actually, to deny limits has become the rule, thus porn cannot any longer represent a transgression. A very interesting and important point, in this regard, is to acknowledge that the progressive denial of limits in heterosexual porn pertains mainly women, and can be reached only if, when, and how women allow it to happen." — Lost Goddesses, "Porn and no limits" (2018)
— Giorgio Tricarico