"You're not anybody in America unless you're on TV. On TV is where we learn about who we really are", Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) in To Die For by Gus van Sant. America as a symbol of modern times is thus the determination of being through a medial determination of appearance. Does not this mean that being is not more, but rather it becomes determined? And does not this mean that a modern ontology should be aimed at the determination modalities of being rather than at its existing categories?