The current rise of cultural studies as a groundbreaking paradigm within the human sciences constitutes, without any doubt, an important medium of re-examination of the “virtual” in this light. To us, this epistemological framework appears, today, to be the one best suited to directly allow for the understanding that the adjective “numérique” is, in itself, neither life-saver, nor modernizer, nor creator – the cutting edge of modernity defining itself in this framework only by the outdatedness of the critical posture which brings to light certain sleeping virtualities of the history of thought, such as the paradoxical semiotic “virtuality” and “materiality” that Saussure and Cassirer left us as a legacy, mediums of understanding our new cultural realities.