functioning, a "preserve", a "shelter", in any case immersed in the quantum. He states: In this de-polarized social space (is it still a social or historical space?), traditional analysis no longer has any purchase, and solutions worked out at this level come to grief on a general uncertainty in the same way as classical calculations come to grief in quantum physics. 59 In light of this situation, Baudrillard writes of the need now "to analyze a non-deterministic society non-deterministically -- a fractal, random, exponential society, the society of the critical mass and extreme phenomena, a society entirely dominated by relations of uncertainty" 60 -- the kind of analysis he and we bring to bear on "reality" today. For Baudrillard, in the contemporary world -- that of the hyperreal world of his third and fourth orders of simulacra -- nothing is exempt from the extreme, delirious processes of the hypertelic, the metastatic, the obese, the obscene, the terrorist and the hostage, the viral, the fractal, the clonal, etc., not even the child. In fact, in his essay "The Dark Continent of Childhood", in Screened Out , 61 Baudrillard links the child with these processes. For him, the child, like the adult, has increasingly become a clone, "a technical performance", and more -- an endangered species, a "satellite...on the artificial orbit of sameness", 62 an unintegratable, non-standard product, virtual, obsolete, and increasingly wild, delinquent, criminal, enemy to the adult -- a dark continent. But as well in this piece, crucially, he allies