In our time, Michel de Certeau notes in "Culture in the Plural," "a desert is produced for those 'stateless', the intellectual migrants from whom institutions deprive representations. The spirit that animated them has not disappeared. It is 'elsewhere', beyond the structures that its departure has transformed into desolate spectacles or functions of absence."

In response to the urgent question: "What shall we do?", these essays, written in the desert, send from exile the message: "Let us defend with selfless passion against the vulgarity of the market and the buyout the 'Moved Man' of Chimonas and the high literature that he deserves."

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