As the downpour began, I joined the other shelterers under the tree.

Rather than resolve this tension directly, one might suggest that this incoherence signals the possibility of another periodization to be found beneath the technophoria, itself veritably rapturous in its vision of a human race relieved by robots not only from producing but also consuming—a periodization in which neither the anxiety over thwarted innovation nor the hurry of technological progress functions as cause of these poetic and more broadly social developments.

He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground.

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