Human Capital and Information in the Society of Control

What Foucault (1984) recognised in Baudelaire regarding his definition of modernity was a great movement, a perpetual contingency upon which it's (fleeting) social organization is manifested ceaselessly. That is to say that modern life was that which ferociously enveloped its people in a temporal dizziness and a dissociation from traditions, from the stability of the past and its rigidity. All life was a moment which could potentially pass by faster than our ability to comprehend it.