The essays in this book are connected by a philosophical premise about the end of history. From Hegel to Baudrillard, from Marx and Heidegger to contemporary interdisciplinary attempts to understand the image after the "end of the history of art", we are faced with this apocalyptic thought. The one-time and unrepeatable event of true history seems to have backed down in front of what comes after its end - an unbearable emptiness at all levels of human relations with the world. Therefore, this book is primarily an attempt to persistently interpret the sources of the assumptions about the end of history. The discomfort that every interpretation of modernity necessarily encounters is already contained in the theory derived from Hegel about the disappearance of something we used to call history in its development from the beginning of Western civilization to this "now" and "here" in the signs of the informational and communicational power of mastering the world. ...