These are the thresholds of sovereignty: the king inhabits a threshold between the human and the divine (0.11, 0.12, 1.6), between the public and the private (1.12) and between the legitimate and the violent (0.10, 1.17). All subsequent sovereigns elaborate upon these thresholds.

The dandy inhabits a threshold between the real and the fictitious that developed in relation to the genealogy and the threshold between the public and the private (2.2, 2.7). However, having been secularized, this type of sovereign no longer dwells in the twilight between the human and the divine but between the human and the inhuman, that is, between the subject and the commodity (2.10, 2.11, 2.12).

The celebrity takes the threshold between the public and the private to a new level of indistinction that takes place in the genealogies of modern media. In accordance with this change, the threshold between the legitimate and the violent ceases to be strictly tied to the political sphere and moves to the sites of cultural production (3.3). In an even more advanced phase of secularization, celebrity creates a new threshold between the outside and the inside of the world that arises from the indistinction between public and private (4.4, 4.5, 4.8). The most recent phase, in which secularization has reached its extreme and tips over towards the religious (5.10), the influencer completely obliterates the distinction between public and private and real and fictitious (5.14, 5.15, 5.18 5.19). Under its regime we enter a powerful media unreality.