Obsolescence

“Dinosaurs have a bad public image as symbols of obsolescence and hulking in\xad inefficiency; in political cartoons they are know-nothing conservatives that plod through miasmic swamps to inevitable extinction.”

“The application of planned obsolescence to thought itself has the same merit as its application to consumer goods; the new is not only shoddier than the old, it fuels an obsolete social system that staves off its replacement by manufacturing the illusion that it is perpetually new.”

“In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.”

“Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.”