The demystification of the world has led to the mystification of the demystified reality. Enlightenment has engendered its own obscurantism; facts are now the new religion. They bring consistency and reliability. That is the meaning of the word and its function: to guarantee familiarity. The opening toward the incommensurable, by contrast, is an opening toward the unfamiliarity-value of the world, toward an inconsistency that comprises its contingency and its becoming, its invisibility and its eluding our grasp, its defying our control and its insignificance.