No single material defines our era. Stone and iron are used massively, on a scale never before imagined; the same goes for sand, the rest of the metals, leathers, wood, and so on. And we have added, as a novelty, plastic and all the derivatives of petroleum. This last has led some to think of ours as the “age of plastic,” but such a label does not follow the logic of the historians when they classified the eras into stone, bronze, and iron. Each one was a substitution of the previous. Ours optimises everything: it is the age of all materials. The age of none. The logic it brings in is very different. At the limit of what has been surpassed, globalisation leaps into concealment. Everything is pomp, everything is presence, everything is visible. Nothing is. Ours is the “age of packaging.”