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The article juxtaposes three paradigms of thinking about the present as a form of the current moment. The first, dialectical paradigm foregrounds alienation as a form of living in a world of social and political conflicts and antagonisms. The second, psychoanalytic paradigm projects categories of symptom and primal scene as components of the psychoanalytic meta-concept, namely the object. The third, multitudinal and virtual paradigm treats life forms in a material way, as components of culture disintegration and crystallization processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]