But don't miss this: there is no either/or in operation here. Vitanza does not say print is dead, writing is dead, "we" are dead. To hear him in this way is to remain trapped in a dichotomy he does not accept: life/death. Pass-ing indicates a living on, the death of death itself. The event of absolute speed is not the end of print nor the end of us. But it does indicate that "we" are end-ing. Because here's the thing: when one temporality demonstrates a collapse of time and space, all temporalities are on the line—and that means that all the abstractions based on those temporalities are pass-ing, too.

-ddd