历史是又一个具有多重意义的复杂能指。尽管历史就其本身而言不可能“死亡”(正如同它不可能“活着”),但我们却完全可以推断历史作为一个符号与其所指分离或混为一谈后,已经丧失全部意义,而且再也不能指涉自身之外的任何事物。简言之,“历史之死”不是指“历史”的死亡,而是“历史”作为一个符号的死亡。在鲍德里亚(Jean Baudrillard)看来,符号要具有指涉价值就必须置于特定的历史条件下,但这些条件已不复存在。没有这些条件——也即没有历史——符号不再是符号,仅仅是幻象而已。从这个层面上说,“历史”是超验能指:符号的符号。一旦它丧失意义,将导致其他所有符号空洞无物。这是因为“历史”不仅是符号中的符号,它更是一种超物质存在,赋予能指/所指关系一种文化的(或者语境的)而非纯粹形式上的意义,也即和符号 History is another complex signifier with multiple meanings. Although history can not, for its part, “die” (just as it is impossible to “live”), we can safely conclude that history, as a symbol, separates or conflates what it means to have lost all meaning, And can no longer refer to anything outside of itself. In short, “death of history” does not refer to death of “history” but “death of history” as a symbol. In Jean Baudrillard’s opinion, the symbolic referential value must be placed under certain historical conditions, but these conditions no longer exist. Without these conditions - that is, without history - symbols are no longer symbols, they are merely illusions. At this level, “history” is a transcendental sign: the notation of a symbol. Once it loses its meaning, it will cause all other symbols to be empty. This is because “history ” is not only a symbol in the symbol, but it is more of a super-material existence, giving a means (or contextual) rather than purely formal meaning to the means / means of relation That is, and symbols