An epoch in which the mind's swarming curiosity, its tinkering and tampering is directed towards its own functioning, its own activity in tinkering and tampering with itself, is one in which it seems we are approaching an unexpected turning point. It is that objectivity itself is being being dissolved into the subjective activity of objectivising, and subjectivity is being progressively emptied out of all its latent structure. At some point all prognostication, all dialectical logic fails, the future can no longer resemble the past, its foundations melting away from beneath it. It cannot be viewed as either positive or negative only inevitable.