Paul Virilio 2010 the Great Accelerator

8/12/2019 Paul Virilio 2010 the Great Accelerator

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Te Great Accelerator V

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First pubished in rench s J / Ediions Gile, 2010

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h it ere the last that is the paradox of turism, of a turism ofthe instant that has no future We might notethat it aso spells the decine in the propagandaof an endess Progress that, ony yesterday, stil

fueled the history of past centuries at historyis no so ired, so hysterica, that it een caimsto foresee actions, the reality of eents that haenot yet occurred Youd think that, tomorrow,e be abe to construct an actual 'Histo of the

Future thans to ong-ter forecasting Suchmcro-narratves woud impose theseles on thehistoricity of the aowed facts, as if the perspectie of the real time of nstantaneity suddenyannued al durability For, thanks to certain


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THE GEAT ACCELERATOR

software programs and the modeng they alow,the ythoogy of futursm s even gearng up to

renew the myths of our orgns and of ntutyA recent anecdote mght serve to lustrate ths

'phase transton n Hstory: at the begnnng ofthe Year Bernard Accoyer, then presdentofFrances Nl, protested aganstthe excessve use, by the French governent, ofa speeded-up process that mts both paraentary chambers exanaton of proposed newaws to a snge readng.

'e cant go on worng ths way not f wewant decent laws and decent democratc debate,ccoyer declared, addng that he would not hestate, f the need arose, to resort to the poss tyof opposng the eergency process n ueston

by sdng wth hs oppos te nuber n the Senate,Grard archer 'A good aw , Accoyer concuded,'reures an ncompressbe perod of tme forreecton 1

e current legslatve frenzy actualy ntro

duces the nerta of rea te, a paradoxcanerta that resuts fro the sudden acceleratonof comon real ty

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HE GEA ACCELEROR

n these very early years o the third milenni ,the poar inerta prodced by the instantaneity o

interactve COECTIOS (ENS is actaly poised to sppant the xed-property inertiao PACES (EU incding the most representative paces o legisation and the aw ewhoe o historici ty wi then nd i tsel shatteredby this 'distortion o copetition between thepast and the futre that is so detrimenta to thepresent, with the AOTECHOLOGIES othe innitey short ter aready taking the place

o the traditional chronologies o the mediumand long term o past days, years and centries Al o this ndermines the sovereignty o

Histo and the sovereignty o a anteriority, with it So, olowing the age o territoria

insecrity, coes the age of the insecrity ofHistory and its tripartite division, PAST PRSET FUURE

is reversa o vaes, we might note, hasalready aected space At the cose o the last cen

try, geopoitica strategists were, in act, trningreaity nside ot ike a gove and assertng that,orever ater, the was to prevail over the

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. Today, it is in the order o m that thistrnarond is being accopished, as posterity

is pried to doinate all anteriority Hence tesdden insecrity o History that now coplements and copletes the i nsecuri ty o a territoriasovereignty now threatened on all sides romabove, by its expansion, and rom below, by itsregiona ragentation Hence the 'repeat delocalization we are crrently witnessing under thepretext o gobaization, along with the impact oa process o externaization otsorcing that

is increasingy ntethered to any practical reali tyn any case, the crrent debates between historians over MEMORIAL LAWS, codied billsdedicated to the eory o specic victis ohistoric cries, cleary point to the daage done

by 'progress regarding the notion o historicaanteriority and its great narratives, which are inthe process o disappearing What is rising tothe ore in their stead is what certain people areaready cal ing the 'great national nove

So, what we are now seeing, ater the topographic and geoetric eraction o distances, isthe anachronistic eraction o the tie intervalsreqired or eective knowedge as wel as ormeory o the acts FCTZTO o


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hsca eanse s coued wh facazaonof duaons eave o he COTUU of

a genea Hsor a's n te pocess of bengnsananeousl ob eaed.

e s ear wa so C urc ad o saon te subjec, wen e addessed te House ofCommons on Ma f a bale beweenas and resent s aloed o b rea ou , Ch uch sad, hee w be no survval fo he urge andmpulse of th e ages, h a mank nd wi move foward owards s goal ' . 1 oer wods, we'l ose

the fuure.We know wa came next: Grea Bran as aspace dd no suer the nsu o f occuaon, bu on because he Brsh eaders avoided a chronooica batle over e TEPO of e Bate

of B an .a was an odd lesso n hisor; bu i wasaso a lesson n geoolcs, n whch he perspectve of he C RO C empoai of eves wasundefeaed b e rospec of te panick nsta

ae bed a fuus' wose fascs orgnswere a oo o bvous, sarng w M arne ' s

Winston Churchill, Address to he Hom Coo, 3My 4


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THE GRAT ACCELERATOR

acs ceebag he Gea Wa as he wod'shgee e cu of h e acceleao of hso

ended appropate enoug fo te fuursts ne B z, a g n g wa of e fa ed nvasono te sk as we as o f te B rs ses

s for us, f n te near futre e et soeMuseum of he sto of ace sele emael, hehe Pas or somewhee else, ew ve sw nd ouselves occuped adetee eo ccu ed M abe we ae aead

veoe knows ha me s eveaed ad herevoves, s gone e REVOLUTOARY ofbgone das s no about to be enaed be evelatona foecaster, e REVELER ofpostode tes

Aoos e ssec css ' e TEMPOof he sock make ad he ue of a luso , ha o f geg he wod econom back oh e goud , some people ae alead aggg heaarng deveopen of ditortion of cometition

for sngerke urbocapas nd 's appeng rgt were te doologst would nssto te ter AMORPOSS fo te tepoa of he sta , as mos cleal descib g h sn anca faade a can n o loge be seen ecept


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escaes maket contol ths, smack bang n themddle of the cedt cunch and massve loss of

nvesor condence.BG BG, BG CRUCH. n the absence

o an true o ca econo of seed , one deang wth he wea o e deveoed naons,these evets ead to a relatvst feon, aneeel seous dstoton of cometto n amake that s no longe sngle n the eal tmeof stock make echanges, even f emanssnge n e real spce o te goba zato n o

ots . e caac of a few b g banks to engagen as orders, usng coung ower anaogous o te ower o ucea deteence tehands of he to bass of te lta, calls ntoueson e ver bass of free coeon n a

tubocaalsm ceal neang ts end .s, thnk, elans the moance of thetem AAMORPOSS n elaon to empoa and to the sudden temo a comesso n ofn anca daa before te curvaure , e d stortng

rror, o te conn u o n econo c storta esdes oda n he asronoca TEMPOo an nsaane and an n teractv ha ocead fo al sun he old laws of a comettvemae whee he felo of nsde tadg, e

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etrated b cheats, was stll commtted wthnthe common hstorcal EMPO of he cho

noog o das, ours and seconds not w nte AOCROOLOGY of nanoseconds,coseconds or eoseconds o n noraton bob ta s current n e rocess oelodng before our ver ees .

Here, e namoross of free trade s roduced b the anachronsm of ths suddenfutursm of a real nstan tat elos the crmna operaton o d gtal sstems and e r devn

mahematcal modellng', wll nll. And doesso a e r sk, ts me, o ex austng con dence, te speculatve a o srewd nvesorsand sareolders, along wh credt, n a BGCREDT CRUCH ed proerbased or

oher) , snce, a s we all know, condence can't bestantaeous or automatc.ence t he majo r rsk o f a choc de a coace,

a crash of condence' , as devastatng as the chocde civiliatio, e cas o cv zato ns, w e

HES o e ree tnker sddenl turnngno an aes o free trade, n e age of bankstat are too g o l , b u , esecal, oo sw obe hoes

Ultmae, ths dsasrous stuaton ought o


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cause us o wonde abou he naue of a newnea: he nea of Tme, of he eal nsan

and of e neracv nvoved n e ransacons a ake place wn e Snge Make,foserng e growg rs o a oopol awod be daagng or all nds o excangess would be a MOOPOY OF DSBEIEand of a athesm wh c he loss o speculave fah woud mos lke end n a so ofMOOTHEIS of he Sgle Make awod be analogos n ts evocave power o e

M OO T EIS of rel gons, of he sngle G odo j sce and ru .So, a woud be t , e ssec rsk, e

negal accden n ghfrequec specaon,were e nera o real e woud ae over

fom he ea sace nea o fseemen accod ngo he aons emloi du tem he scedulngo me timetables n he seveahosandeaod e a of he sedena homebod.

Le e jus sarze: e emloi du tem,e eable, bend hsorc coooges,e rate dvson paspresefuure, wereo comlee dsaea, oveae b he accden of an ovewhelm ng aac on sc nsan,


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then he AOECOOGIES of fuursnstantanet woud soon lead to oss of memo

ad abadonen of Hso's credb o thederent of all codence n the ture ecoeporar word of te gobzed SgeMarket wod te ed a POR Rof unequalled ateoa assv, an nertaof the ea nsnt And that nerta would, hstme, otll shatte the noo of he duatoand sedeta stab of planea setteen,sce te ert of e nercve nsta wold

soon comlete oudo the edoe netaof cvt the re sace of a t's routneda fe

As for the geographc and, so, spatal secof ths deveoet, see thog the or

hoss n comet on men oned above, t woldbe agged b lo ss of con dence n t he no on ofPogess an d b t he overwhelm ng prevaence ofdelocazaton of poducon but aso of esearchd deveoe or, URB XODUS,

e werst cer, w oe d reprodce e ago of RURL EXO D US , te ageof he dsral revou o t rasor ad edto the headong ush onl, in cloed circuit of general eodus of hu man t


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Las ceu, ech A oce geeal, LoelMa Chass, declaed: e fac ha he Eah

s rod as o e bee ake o accou be mla. seems a todas ecoomssad acers o e Sge are st reuseserous o eera a ac, cea o emeve asseg ha ogess commucaosas made e wod efecl a, l ke somemulmodal logscal afom oodwked be ea eec of accelerag os, e seculaors of e mome are so mesmerzed b

STOCK CAG scees, e aaedo oce e deomao of values causedb e curved mrror o sock rades eage of gobazao ad, so, te asroocalaure of s sudde me comresso a, o

couse, alows em o make hgl messveros Bu o a he cos of moe ad moefagle bubbles a wll soo oduce heSSTEMIC CSH of ubocatalsm ad,moe a ag ese, e SECULIS

o specuaors wo w o oger be abe oave codece e uure o e so

omas Fiedman, 7e World is l Hamondswoh:Pgi Bk, 5


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of rogrss or to ct th latst softwar todlivr th m iracs romi sd y th mathmati-

ca modng sd a markt sjct to tcssv ss o f yractv ash trai ng ratvst os commtt y t nsdrtradrs vovd in grqnc ctronccags wll suddl t th ras on thhr rali sm of th G rat Casino qit as ifth sdngtrai ct of igh ac scadtradrs an scaly th N l Priz winrsn coo cs aparty nk t annrs

who laid out th railwas as though th ins-curt o Hstor wasnt ound, som a tofatay mt adon t scurt o t tr-rtoris involvd i th natios emi du tem

or t mtas !

Actaly t virtal rat Caso of th thi rdmlnum loos a lot li thos gostatoarysat ts in or it aov som locai ty or othr adwhos dror inrtia s sad to gosyn-cronos n trms of t vtcat o a gv

PC wras t oar nrta o t nan-ca cas o s CHRONOSCHROOUSwt vr ac on t go tanks to ts

stataous tracv coctos.So toug it may sigl th ral sac


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dow to som muscul tam that ca wor a aartmt th sculativ fud havg o ra

ga status.Iscurty of trritory with th imortac

of sads of osor vus ad t vidtywaing mortac of say Switzrad aogwth aig scrcy . . . scurity of H storywhry th accoutig stadard of th mart so th o it of rlacig th h istorcal stadardof h istig of stocks o th Stoc chag. . . s ar a so may c in ica symtoms of

the futurism of th istat ad of its i mact ocoomic tigc in th ag of an coog-ca dsastr whos sco nvr stos sradig iroad dayight.

a rct itrvw shd th SundayTime th chairma ad CO of odmaSachs oyd af dclard: Im just aar doig ods wor. Clary ths artc-uar od s o ogr hog for much from

is fatfu rotworshiers t ivstors towhom t ssia of anc coud st say oaccou of t audanc of thir scuatvfaith: o you r fa th has savd you!

Actually th crdit cruch th criss of


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codc that has hit th stoc chags ofth Sigl at is just a alywaig sig

o a tru ACCDNT I NOWLD tatis aout to stik an act' scinc which hasrcny tund nto a cnoscc of nsrumna cncy ta as no raonsh to towdg wv acquid ov th cous of thags. a tchoscic's sohisticatd mathmatica modls ad sowa dot dissimulata that wl h systmic catastoh of a scinc that as no conscinc a scinc that no

log v ss th waig symtoms of itsown dcn and sca not t imts asnow racd n ts dscovrs at onc aomic nfomatic and gtc . o than aythg sth d gia cv zat on ' so on umptd maks

a tn to umoogical agaism ad its cutsof yo .Actua th wod of th haaohs of ac

is o at as thy claim. It is miiscul iitsima j ust k t dgr zo o a tch ca

Progss tat wo o ongr oo anyon wtot ts roaganda. So with t akng andn ring i to th instat t fracta izao n o i stoc PO th AOCH N O O I Shd th ai ct o u th had


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of ossiiiy of rumig h coomic wihh asroomic Wh ha has h sci-

c of coogica habitat wi ray shak h habitu of sociis onc s in s-ary fas o w ro naur o or da yias or emloi du tems, ig oayaboi sh ACCRATO N of ows of ai s wil sua his im for good h hisorical ACCUATON of socs ofwa o f goods on c osd i a rsrvo ir ci y o n

If his wr civy o ha h currdoca izaion ofroucio wou i no wa ao som ur rocaizao of acivy inus-rial or ohrwis woul lad o a diivXTRZ TO OUSORCG

of h ura rac righ hr o h is y l- ric la ul savaio cam i hform of som ohr romis a hs oOPLANTA h sigl odus of ca ic ing o oo odus

o a circs rosi a way y circuaraccraor i Gnva!

vi rua otherwor of cyr ics is in facohg mor ha h aachroism of a othertime i which h cr ical sac of a dro s


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fractas1 mrgs wih h critical nstant of anamntay uninhaital continuum at

continuu m s ju s t anamo ross o t rac-ticl raity of a forgottn toograhy sinc thron of a our movmns as w as o anations actons (r oca itrg) rgisrsa lot mor forcily in th domiciiary ity ofsnar man han in th haong rush thforc il of un rid nomadism H nc thu rgnc of a qusion a is now cnra or morrcis trmina : t qstion o t naur o

TIA i n th ag ofth rvou tion i n i nform a-on an t aarn unrmark ransrnco t DPROPRT nrtia assocatwt h ral sa of PACS - LX- o tPOLAR nrta o COCTOS LNS.

or twntyrstcnu inractiviy now domi -nats h stanarization of haviours anacivitis that characrizd oth th nintnhand wntith cnturis And that domina-ton nas an ncras COSYSTC rsk

o arayss or rar sddn ttragao a soca oy wos rtual moton s

ul Viilio L 'Espce que. is: histin ooi184

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froz i ach of its lims ad whos structuralumloymt is ow a slffulig rohcy

is mass moymt i s orcd o us artyy th atomatio of ostdstrial rodctioa ar y t automatio o r actos or ow otragosy sdd emloi dutem our aga at is th imtus hdh m uchtoutd thrat o f raunchig th worldcoomy ct that this t im such a rlauchwold without ay emloi du tem whatsovr a wo occr wit t cyrtc sac

dd y th irtia of th roitious istat t rigt momn for sur mrar ma aman dcddy wt ou t qua i ts

t td Stats for instanc th roi wag il i th ast quartr of co

ld with a uchagd lvl of activity dosidd sg that rica rms ar imrovig roductivit ut o nly to th dtrimtof mloymnt at fact arly ots to at ur d sr azato o atons as a ru

to wc t crr docazatio o rms ifavou r o owcost mloys is o ti g mortan a arwag sg of t srad of automatio Tomorrow th rootics of articiaitlligc ad its hacd rality wil tak


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on the buk o poductivity in a esoutely postmoden wod .

n te ace o th s assessmen o aais and owant o a po tca economy o f speed and not j usto e wea o naons, the speed box' (gearbox) o tecnca progress i go nto auomacmode and the stock maket crash ought onby specuaio wi end, soone or ater, n thecash o al job poduction. e turism o theinsan requies t and wi oce omoow onte geneato ns to come .

s no more. vetng is NOW andte HIC T NUNC o days gone y s about todsappea compeey om he hoizon of his-toy n hs ecen vademecum, Fench pubc

nteectua , econom st, anke an d toptie consuant, Jacques Atai recommends living eveymoment to the hit as though it was the ast.Attai even goes as a as declaing that, Sincetme s te ony reay rare comodty, t s

now e ony one wort eng save.' at swhy, he eckons, s urgent to ocus on eveynsa ' .

Jacques Atali, vax cses Pari: ayard

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A symo o a ata inetia, this veatimaccoun t i ustates pe ecty the i neoa e n atue

o this deios tuis that deconstcts aconoogy and, with it, the eody ine o isoy as we as e grea naave o o co oneo is s at eay es ehind Fancesecent spate o memoia aws an the gowingthea to teitoia identiy o a nationaity hatis no moe seevident, in the end, than the geopo i tica soveeignty o the egitimae nationastate. And this, n a goaized wo constanty

tavesed y intena eies in a osedcicuiteods o j ustin me os o eope tha so eae a eady eer ng to as te gato oensiveo susainae moiiy in he twenyst ceny TCAB TY now eing imposed on

each an evey one o s is is why magneticotas have een instae in pots an aiots, aong ith sat coios o passengeidentication that ae endowed with odyscannes to strp search a those oies n end

ess ranst We a kno tat whee tees a wa ee as to e a doo u the ony rea dieence eeen his a an the o oed athat suouned a city is the vitua natue o thecontemp oay encosue o postoen times , as


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the weathe, e tem q 'i l it, and o passingtie, e tem qui ae, time now passing so

cky. OPOLTCS wod ten ceverycompete the C RONO PO CS o te t imeend e GOPOTC neractv oo r reat me comm ncatons.

anks to such adinistation o dation an do the ie needed, e tem qu l faut, to actconscientiosy and not jst inteact wih teecomm n cation toos, he ecoogy o the weather,e tem qu lit, wod take on a natra' e

igence ha' s cuent y in the pocess o beingdscrmnated aganst, as toug t were ocassed by the eas o te artca' ntegenceo compter programs and handy soware hatcan do anyng, and soon, ndo anyhng . . .

Sch a geat minisy o Tmes anageentwod manage the vta hyths o the weatheand not jst the envionent it wod be a inisty o Space anagem en t, oveseeing a spacetat s now exasted not ony s bodver

sty aso n s cronodvers y, wt seasonass n cmae beng erased, as we as in sgeodvesiy, wt te derences in and exteo coun ty andscapes e ing si mi ay eased o,he potion o time distances now competes


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te pollution o substaces wate ai auna andoa; ad the cuent dom ination o the eal t ime

o excages over te ea space o te cot-ne ts eds, as we see , i i erta . M ore pecisey, itends te om et o erta ' o the nteractveCONNCTON (LIE, a stat erta tatwi shoty take ove om the xedpopetynetia' o PACS (L in a sedentaiesstat a the same goes back a the way to ancienttimes

te ace o t s astroo mica shatte-

ing o ou emloi du tems, ou daiy egimen,te satteig o a cotuum tat's about togo ro beng postmode to become posts-toric' we can egitmately ask ouseves aboutthe TPORY amesa o tecncay

oented civiization. e poposed miistyo the eatvity that is esticted to ou inced-ibly camped panet would, in act, open up anew avenue o ope, the hope o aowing ote kairo te right moment or acton and ot

just teractve reacto n tat utue getto oCONCTON a substaceess addictotat w soon suppant the ghetto o PC'o ageod sedentainess on a teluic panettat's decidedy too sma o technica pogess


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j ust as it is too sa o the pots o a capitals unleashe y the systemc cash o the

NANO C NO LOG S o instantaneity.t a ends, tmatey, in the geat ockdown

o story, te unantcpated renaissance o anew orm o sun worsp, one requrng sacrices that are not only uman (socoogical} utrural (ecoogcal) . n othe wods, it ens inthe nevitale eviva o the ilui nis o ightthough the i u n ism ehin the instantanesmo ight s m t speed . at s the new asoute o

a god who eay doesnt play dce, ut happydons the id icuo us castos o te Sun King , oro up ter, god o the sky an o g t, t asoo thune and ghtning vinity o ti s tuystunnng, an not just exposive, instantanety

o a demandingy secua age. A age in whichmonoatheism otpaces the nihiism ehindth e death o th e gods, with the enaissance, thenew age, o a ate o o sun woship in whichte speed o eectromagnetc waves gts p,

trog ts raation mc more tan ts rays,the radant utu re o p rogessivsm. is tru mpho monoateis is partcuay marked y theconstructio n in G eneva o a circuar (suteranean) catheral, whch is actuay a 7 kiomete


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acetack estine to i scove at the en o theace Gos pat icle the HA ON at the isk

o ening in e oscurantsm o a ack oeSuch an accient in knowege wo no output an en to te eman o r exper enta pyscs an terey te exac scences promotngin stea the etenal etun o the m agical thin k-ing o the Pytagoeans o the igita an o thepogammes o hany soware that can oanhing.

So its a too easy to see that with the atest eec-tonic i umnsm ansuman soceies o eanima species are etamorposng into yrso e pant species as they in un ecomeOTOPCA an photosensive oject-

oente toug the aming o point o iewan captue y the inteacetoace cononta-tion o the multipe sceens o an envionmenthat s suenly go ne inteactive .

We gt now ave a etter sense o e avoc

wreake y pogess n a KATC energyo instantaneos rasmission a as come tocoete te KTC energy nvove in tetanspot o f oies in the ea o the inustial ev-o ut io n a pecee the vey recen t inomat io n

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evoluti on poduced by telecomm un ication s einematic enegy involved in being caied away

in the age o interactive synchronizaton roundso the reality eects' produced by the knetcenergy nvoved n the physca movement ondividuas, at hgh speed

Justintimezeostock': that slogan o lagescale commecial distribution today beautiulydescib es the mu tatio n in the in itia om of ineia, that o xedpopety settement, into a nainertia, that o the instan or, more precisey, the

m omen t o f netia' in the i nteactivity that nowdenes our eaionshp wit he word. wordgo ba ized by word t me , thanks to the restrainedrelativiy o (insananeous) excanges And thiseativity eads no o ny to nse in an restrcto n,

bu t also to the ecosystemic educon o the t im edistances o th e sta that caies us an d suppo tsus (with geate and geate dicuty), the original ak, ARTH, which the phenomenologistmund Husser tod us coudn't moe, snce

speed s not a phenomenon' but the reationspbe tween penomena Fo r, the tempora compression o eractvity is equivalent to the teuriccontaction of the planet of living beings: thisincedibly owntoarth' sta o th e QI CK,

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te ive (v wee te acceeation o teQUICK, te swit (vite) in the VOI (vide

has now ecome the prmay ssue or an ecoogytat s po t ca not tanspoi tica , as tose pu ed scpes o te cu o he speed o gh n hevacuu (vide) o deep space, te um n sts ote Last ay, wou d e to have us e ieve .

In the end, the mao ssue or the thid i-ennium is indeed te issue o te egime operiodici in an aeopoiics o time ' ha wou dnot, a the sae, negae the geopocs o the

origina setting o the arth and te CI,that has tued nto a WORLCTY, ORGNAL ARK OF OMORROW. ere, ametaphor spngs o mind o ocean navigaton ,w th t e nveno n o st h e echan ca co ck

and ten te o noad chono mete.I he sky is indeed a monuenta cock, thatdoesnt mae it easy to dec iphe, desp ite the com-pass and the setant and ASROLAB. Fo, iwe can cacu ate at tue by o servng the eght

o stas above the hozon, ongtude, on theoer hand, can't be veied except y consd-erig e tme derence eween two deepoints on the gobe. at equies the use o theconoeter, wereas the wheehouse hou


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gass vey like a speedomete meely showed ashps spee wth the aid of a og that invsible

fe n e yng sub me ged at te end of a p ece ofstng, gaduated n knots.

Suey we c' a o see e enormous medeence tat exsts today be tween our at o nceuntmey and nteactve pact ces pacticesnvoved n supesonc tanspot and instananeous tansmission and ou daly l fe now soeaused so deped o e nteas of tmeneeded fo eecton an d espon sb e acton . s

s t o say nothing of th e casno economy thatnena ac ne tat s mpossb e to stop be orea SYST CS, te spwreck o teog na Ak occus eaing t s time o a chaoswe can we m agne . . . A ro nc TOPA or

a topica CHRONIA as some people mightcal the futue bth of a geat Mnisy of hemes o moe pecsely of the weathe le temqu l fit, and the time needed le tem qu lfut, ere beow n the depts of a forecosed

word. A wor tat woud n te end deseet s ARO PO IT IS o the per od c y o wat

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is vita for chronopage societies, keen to cash,tomorow, into the CIRCULAR time barrie

at the end o the tunne o LNAR hstoricity. CRN's Geat adron Coide' in Genevahas becoe the perect sybo o a postodernreturn o u ns , the u n sm of the cutof ight speed for a hi story op erating a dierenttme zone fom a commo reait.

So , i we can j ust hang on a i te whie onger,the kown word of our memory m ght we fadefo the contro screens o story and dsap

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Me e vie ( festye) and cardac rhythms (heart-

beats mo e tee speed mode and techncarhythmcs (technca cyces) that, n a nutshe,s the ueston posed by the TEMPO of ouruse of tme and space n a vtaty that was oncerunofthem but s now suerng from every-

day fes eectro technca ARHTHMA whchnever stops rocking peope's conscences

e od caendarbased systems of agrar-an socetes, ther seasona rhythms, haveong yeded to the systems and rhyhms of


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ndustralzaton and the mass populaton shsfrom the county to the towns hs process has,

by the same token, abolshed the remander ofthe West's Chrstan rtuals w th publ c holdaysdwndlng as the programmed end of lfetmeemployment the practce of openended workcontracts spreads, along wth structural unem-ployment t has reached the pont of pure andsmple el mnaton of the weekly ycle now thatSunday has been subverted as a day of rest andthe muchtoued sevendaysaweek 7/7) made

mperatveAnnual and seasonal not so long ago, weeklyand daly after that, ths truly hstorc rhythmcswas to be gven a fatal blow by the cybernetcnformaton revoluton For, the acceleraton

of common realty swftly makes pata le,everyday lfe and not just socal or famly lfe,mpossble . s has recently resulted n the atom-zaton, the sudden fractalzaton' of socal un tswhch , beyond the rsks of communtaransm',

entals the ncomparably more serous rsks ofan emotonal SNCHONZATON that wlllead to a communsm of aects' on the scale ofa planet reduced to nothng, where the real t meof ber nstantanety wll, ths tme, nally


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overtake the real space of the tm derencesand tme dstances nvolved n our ndspensa

ble relatonshp wth the world Desocalzatonwll thereby extend people's current mental andemotonal dsorentaton

Meda pressure already notorously ends upexposng the prvate lves of select ndvduals,poltcans, celebrtes, topter' sportsmen, evenof that avantgarde of progressvsm, the presenters of nghtly newscasts Here, we mght notethe dopng of televson audences s no longer

chemcal but electrooptcal and t has reachedthe pont where the usual smulaton of thevrtual world of screens s enhanced by the rhythmcal excess of a stmulaton that mently andemotonally shakes people once so attentve to

the hours of the day and th months of the cvlyear that successfully replaed the new ear of thehstorcal calendar system and the hly year ofthe j ublees of yore

One partcular presenter, a woman, put t

ths way My objectve s to feel that I 'm alwaysalve to not become mummed But I don'tnow f I can keep up the pace for much longerI know that f Id worked less, I'd have hada second chld hat wll always be my great


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regret But current aars are forever wearng usdown'

Presenter, male or female ths denomnatons revelatory of the latest of futursms: that ofthe electrotechncal dopng perpetrated by theOMNIPESEN nstant that so relentlesslytortures former journalsts', who've suddenlysegued nto nstantanests' omorrow t wllaect each and every one of us, transformg theordnary lfe of sedentarzed socetes, here orthere, nto an nfraordnary' lfe For, the pho-

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ts very ong duratons and ts professona con-strants, had suddeny mutated n the face of

the dscpnary demands of the unforeseen, theunexpected, of the ustntme' nature of tghtdstrbuton, for the very peope who are a readyno onger producers, actors of progress, but mereonookers, consumers of the bckground noseof an NTEEACTTY that takes the paceof the NTEMED ATON of the empoyees ofthe not so dstant past

So, empoyment as a way of fe, a me de

vie s superseded by fe as a user's manua, vie mde dmpi as Georges Perec woud say,for a new knd of provsona socety, one exces-svey nstrumentazed and endessy ncted tooverreact to ths or that sgna, a the dverse

st mu of a prmanent stat of aarm n thatstate, the nstantanety of what cops up unex-pectedy w doubtess condton the pttngnto a trance not of the ctzensoder anymorebut of a ctzensubect, wthn a soca network'

that w soon repace the network based on thephysca proxmty of actua peope Peope keour od neghbours, who we'd so oen bumpnto n the PCES behnd the SOCALCONNECTTY of our past domcary


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inertia he private life of each and every one ofus will gradally yield to the overexposure of a

semipulic life where the intimacy available topeople generally wil l be l ike the intimacy enjoyedby detainees under observation in police custodyFor, the old CAMERA OBSCUA of panoptical surveillance turns out to have been nothingmore than a clin ical symptom of the imminentobli teration of any private l ife

Here, a further comment is needed. In thepast, with the rule of Saint Benedict of Nursia,

the sequestration of the monastic order succeeded the roaming of the wanderers of theapostate, with the Roman Church distinguishing between CONEMPLAIVE and ACIVEorders. oday, it would indeed seem that, for the

COELIGIONISS of social networking, thesame kind of ine is being drawn between a fewallegedly highlyskiled actives' and the anonymous mass of contemplatives', these Francisanfriars riveted to their screens the way monks were

once riveted to their breviaries, with our secular but interconnected societies once and for allsorting the sheep from the goats

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tends to supplant domiciliary inertia and the geographic localization of a social body already in

a state of advanced decay where mass individualism wreaks its havoc. For, the photosensitiveinertia of the mass of progress's contemplativesand the delocazation of their activities are nothing more than fatal signs of the disorientation inwhat Perec would call the me mp of theirdaily li fe .

Here, too, comparison with the religiousorders is fruitl he l iturgy, the acts of the

people', contemporary with the third millennium, revives, as though in secret, the liturgiesof the people of believers. But where the Churchof Christendom managed to create an equalitybased on Faith wi thin a wide diversi ty of l iving

conditions and spri tual riches thanks to the statics of deeprootedness in xed property (that ofthe monastery, a true laboratory of the futureof our empi u temps, the dynamics of therevolution in transport, and especiall in com

puter transmissions, has abolished this form ofsocial unity in favour of the synchronizationof common sensations In this INECIVECOMMUNISM, the real instant of audiovisualteecommunicatons domnates the atooea


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space of socal communcatons, and the stand-ardzaton of relgous belefs and behavours s

erased thanks to the smul tanety of common feel-ng, wth the communty of n terests' shared byall now yeldng ts pol it ca prmacy to ths com-munty of emoton based on an ndvdualsmthat s fundamentally ranspol tcal

s phenomenon s further aggravated by theevoluton of a culture and, ly aerwards, atrue CULT OF EXCESS over the course of thenneteenth century and, especally, the twenteth,

wth the acceleraton of realty tself endng nthe dawn of a new form of madness, I fie vir s entals havng to see at al l costs to thedetrment of hearng, as well as of handlng, oftouch, tactl ty, as well as o f contact

On ths score, t 's tme for an anecdote, the oneabout Rchard Wagner puttng hs hands over hsgrlfrend, hs lover, Malvda's eyes, whle theywere lstenng to Tstn and shoutng at herStop lookng so hard and l sten! '

Ever snce ts GrecoLan orgns, n fact,Western phlosophy has been prmarly a ph-losophy of vson, of the varous knds of lghtand the forms presented to searchng eyes hat


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has produced today's cult, ths technocult of thespeed of l ght and of the waves that convey nfor-

maton that has now gone MEGALOSCO PC.t s so what's behnd the retnal persst-

ence of an anachronstc tursm of whch theNANOCHRONOLOGES are the latest avatarOne wrter has even gone so far as to clam thatspeed s the contemporary world's arstocracy' n a nutshell, a racng nob l ty', followng onfrom the court nobl ty of the Ancen Rgme

But to get backto the European PHLOFOLLYof seeng esterners, and especally Latn-Europeans, lke LatnAmercans, need publcpassons After the great passon of trumphantChrstanty, t sems they opted for the greatpasson of a Progress tha ws to end, last cen-

tury, n the very bref passon for speedng up thehstory of the twenteth century he l mt speedof waves then stole a march on the wealth ofnatons, whose end, whose defeat, Communsm'was supposed to mark, thanks to the cosmsm

of escape velocty that enabled escape from ter-restral gravty rst by Sputnk, then by theMR staton that sgnal led that cosmsm's fal ureand dsappearance e TUO CTALSMof the Snge Market then took over n the age


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of in ternational economic in tegration thanks tothe very latest escape velocity', residing wihin

the domain of bernetics and anticipating thedeliverance, this time in the name of ecology, ofa humanity poll uted by discovery of a habitableEXOPLANET, freemarket COSMOTHEISMthereby following hot on the heels of the socialCOSMISM of the old Soviet Empire

In fact, it has only ever been one small stepfrom the mass portable empire to the otherworldexodus of populations one small step for man

bu a giant leap for mankind , as Ne il Astrongonce said, as he disembarked on the night stara star or, more precisely, a nightspot, that somewould now like to see back on the agenda, despi tePresident Obamas rejection of the idea

One thing's for sure and that is that it's nowtoo late to have a private li fe Yesterday's so li tarycrowds, who were told are now so smart', arenothing more than hordes primed for a longhaul exodus, OUTOFTHISWORLD exile

beyond our earthly homeland, for the liberatedand dispersed societies of the great diaspora,deportation having been merely a fatal sign ofan TERNALITION that has no future,where moveent is al l ad the goal is pointless


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owadays, unlike in the in us trial era ofmanufacturing plants and factories analysed by

Marxism we no longer explore we expel Wealso exterminate more and more frequently, theSTOP EECT of those dmned to exodus therebytaking over from the STAND BY of yore

Both the settling of the peasantry on theland where it all began and the xedpropertyinertia of the tydweller are now being over-taken by the real instants devastating inertiaor, more precisely, i ts moment of inertia, in anINTERACTIVE simultaneity that shakes upall setting down, any eeprootedness On thatscore, note that the very rst law of urbanism isretention of the si te . At this stage in the historyof human, but also urban, settlement, terri torial

insecurity is at an alltime high and the territo-rial sovereignty of the legitimate national stateis in danger of being lost forever in the face ofthe HPERCOLONIALIST threat posed bysovereign wealth funds' grubby langrabbing,

monopoliing all l ands and their resources e oldpoli tics o the dro du sol, the right to citienship,gives way all of a sudden in the face of the exor-bitant privileges of a sort of AEROPOLITICS,which is not only ecological but economic. his


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is what lies behind the drit du ie the right tothe sky, to heaven, to all the heavens and to the

virtual space of interconnected nancial markets,with the highfrequeny traders who engage insh trading here playing Russian roulette, everyday, with the fate of the world in a lightningwar whose weaponry is provided by highying(i cybernetic systems, the old sovereignty ofnations gradually disappearing. What shoots tothe fore instead is a ME AGEOPHYSICALpolitics for nations that are stateless', or as good

as, now that the correligionists of humanity'sSERVOMOOR are joining forces with thoseof a computerized PANHEISM. Gaia, theEarth Goddess of triumphant ecology, is alreadya symptom of this.

With the revolution in the nancial industryand its mathematical models leading to the sstemic chaos we're al l only too familiar with and,in this age of an anthropocentrism that is wreak-ing havoc with our climates and causing whole

peoples to go into exodus, we actually have nochoice bu t to look long and hard at the structuralenergy of an anthropodynamics of the historyof humanity in which territorial identity is indanger of shortly being lost together, now that


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we're seeing the beginnings of a sot of instanttraceabil ity of the social body as well as of each of

its membersIf the aerostatic form of sedentary human

settlement was once geographically indexed,the aerodynamic form of exclusion, and of theeed that now prevails over of the epited offull employment is not indexed at all .

Hidden behind freedom ofmovement and masstourism, the HABIABLE CIRCULAIONinvolved in the forced exile ofboth the internallydisplaced persons' offrican states and the delocalized persons' of developed countries meritsmore than just a cartography now. It merits aconstantly udated trajectography a sort ofPLANEAUM of the ows of populations in

permanent transit if we are to attempt to tracethis uncivilized choreography of the excluded,whose mortality rates never cease growing,beyond the chaos in moral values, to the point ofextermination and genocide.

Here, a further comment springs to mind.If the political engagement of the responsible individual not long ago joined forces withthe brand o engagement promoted by Sartrianexistentialism, we hae to say that, in this era of


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mass ndvduasm of a COMMUNISM OFAFFECTS that are synchronzed, what prevas

s beng carred away l'empremen. s n boththe tera and metaphorca senses of the term: asn the mobe and the portabe and n oss of sef-contro e acceeraton of rea ty s now part andparce of the oss of a sefcontro , when even theacceeratng hs tory of hstorca materasm sttook ts tme the tme needed to get a sense ofpast hstory as we as the tme nvoved n a rad-ant future that Sovet cosmsm woud try to get

o the ground agan once the USS coapsed.In ths sense, the COSMOTHEISM that sonce agan rampant n the West, n tandem wthecoogy and the desperate quest for an exopan-etary refuge, takes us back to the astronautca

haucnatons that so cevery masked the ev-dent faure of progress ' n the era of the baanceof atomc terror between the great Eastern andWestern bocs.

By way of conrmaton, we mght pont

out that, at the end of Juy 9 the very rsInternatona Extraterrestra Summt' tookpace n Barceona s was foowed at the ndof August that same year by a beefedup ed-ton of Operaton Surcate, desgned to track the


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trajectores of UFOs a over Europe, thanks tohundreds of teescopes traned on the rmament,

n a bd to correate sghtngs

Speakng of the contempatve nature of contem-porary man, a journast jokngy pu t t ths way:He's an exhbtonst who's been paced underobseaton n custody'

Surrounded by hs screens and subject todeo contro and the dscpne of programs,as we as to the rues of nteractvty ths newPHOTOSENSITIVE beng turns nto a consent-ng vctm of a progress that amputates hs prvate fe w th eectrooptc addcton to nformatonmore and more aenatng hm from hs sense ofsef

Hence the dena of engagement per se po t-ca , syndca st . n favour of an empremen gettng carred away rage that ony massndvduasm has the knack of, where once co-ectvsm merey mposed engagement, the fact of

havng on y one party fac tatng the ack of anyconscentous objecton'

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the rtive gliding of a mode of private automobi le' transport, that mode of publ ic transport

involved in the mass exodus of interconnectedindividualities

With naval or aeronautical BULK CAERS,GROS PORTEURS or, better still , MRESPORTEUSES, surrogate mothers carrying outgestation for others, the constant expansion ofthe caying capacity of our various vehicles doesindeed g the sudden shift in travel, which wassoli ta not so long ago bu t wil l soon be embarked

on (embedded) communaly as we head to uncertain destinations where speed becomes a kind ofdestiny

Here, we might note a new type of highlymanoeuvrable transport plane that is particularly

revelatory of the coming revolution in haulagehe SKYLANDER, manufactured in France, isa veritable LAND ROVER of the sky, capable ofoperating in dicult condit ions and hostile envi-ronments, with mximum payloads and ight

ranges Canadas TWIN OTTER, said to be arustic aircraft, is also a versati le twinengine tur-boprop that can take on freight or passengers asrequired in conditions of rudimentary comfort,where passengers travel standing up, like cattle in


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a cattle truck, while awaiting further, even moreradical, developments

But let's get back to the case of the surrogatemother' , so brill iantly analysed by the French phi-losopher Sylviane Agacinsk. is living thismetabolical vehicle, trivializes pregnancy, which isreduced to simple foet transport, certain womennow even being seen as akin to chartered planesthat can eect a sort of cocartage or o thers' 1

hese are all so many panicky signs of theimminent end of a private life deprived of all

l ial identity, from birth on; and when we comeof age, we can expect to see ourselves deprivedalso of any territoria' identity, in siu by thebiopolitical requirement of unending social'traceability e imperatives of ecological secu-

rity in this latest LEBENSRA UM will alsonecessitate the same control over distribution tothe etriment ofstocks and of the historical accumulation of civil law and the rights o f man' thatstill, until recently, prevailed is is why we're

seeing the gradual disappearance of sel fcontroland the medical evacuation, by airli, of the old

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way of l fe, wth ts customary urban ty folowngon from peasant lfe, that lfe lved from day to

day, to the rhythm of the seasons, n a way thenanochronologcal acceleraton of the nteractvenstant no longer allows

Over the course of the 920s, wrter oseph Rothsensed the deeper sgncance of the style ofarchtecture known as the nternatonal style',n whch the cullng of ornament, as well as ofvolumes, came wth the hygenst myth of mx

mum sunl ght and transparency for housng heSHOP WNDOW was posed to be rased ntoa GLASS BLDNG, causng all ntmay tobe lost to nhabtants overexposed to the eyesof all, the loss of the temporal bearngs of daly

l fe beng accompaned by a dsorentaton n therhyhms of l fe he lghtng of towns, at n ght,was to be further rounded o by the elmnaton of loadbearng wal ls , wth the curtan wal l 'and automatc blnds servng as shutters for the

cameras lucdas' of an era n whch the snapshowould shortly overcome the hold of longtermduratons and the purely pomotonal MEDABLDNG would even l lumnate the publcspace of the c ty, as Tmes Square


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Wthn ths same order of deas of a comngpost n tma' , we mght note how jont teancy

s gradually turnng nto a mode of coexstencethese days For ofte qu te derent reasons, then,we are seeng the revval ofthe Sovet utopa ofthecommunal household' and the shared apartment these socalld SOCAL CONDENSERS forwhch the turst archtect, Melnkov, provdedthe theory.

rough economc necessty, gven the costsof rentng, people now boast on the nternet of

the concept of a unt of collectve lfe', as thePartageSenor Sharng for Senors) Assocatondcates A mxed nest of four or ve people andwhat you ge qute a derent ambance wherejont tenants feel freer

A woman who runs a smlar assocaton goesas far as tel lng journalsts that Jot tenacy sthe world's best antdepressant '

Other organzatons go even further thsdsorentaton of the old way of lfe, oerng a

l fe plan aboard a sal ng shp' talored to senorswho mght fancy an openended trp around theworld . Between contaner shps, where llegalmmgrants stow away at the rsk of ther lves,ad these luxur cruses for toursts of esolato,


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who frtter away the nhertance so they can lvepermanently on an ocean lner snce that turns

out to be less expensve n the end than a decentretrement home there s l the derence nthe world the derence between the headlong ght of the desperate and sheer ambulatorymadness

n the same category of gyraton as that performed by the GYROW A ES of exodus thesenew wanderng monks of no xed abode, wemght cte an eccentrc pratce that types the

new form of travel for people n endless transtCouch surng s a mode of hosp tal ty that conssts n oerng free accommodaton n your ownhome to travellers met over the nternet Wththese jont tenants for a nght the guest room

turns nto a room n a gust hous for strangrsTo travel to comb the world wthout havngto part wth any cash thanks to htchhkng andsome couchsurfer network that was the am o fan dealst ntatve launched n 1949 aer the

Second World War, by Gary avs, that apostlof a global zed c tzenshp wh has today beencunnngly dverted from ts peaceful objectves .

Hoteler or Hosptaller of the Net Wth couchsung, the blurrng of genres s clear n tmacy


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once sought out of a sense of proprety seems tobe mstaken for conceament, as though of some

shameful dsease . . .Al ths reproduces fa rly fathfully the excesses

of telesurvellance, ntally lmted to the spaceof streets and other places of transt, then ntrouced nto the common parts of buldngs carparks or entrance hal ls

Here agan, the transparency of publc spacefollowed by prate spaces leads to the transappearance of the n tercom, or secur ty phone and

ts camera.Another example of ths s the recent growthn the MEGOSCOY of Google Earth,wth ts research engne Google Maps amngto vsualze the entre world. Followng the use

of obsrvaton satlls th rm s dvlopngGoogle treet, usng a specalzed car n streetbysreet reconnassance of ctes and settngo a whole debate on respect for prvate lfe ndong so. n the face of resstance at local coun

l level, Google decded to launch Street Vew,usng bcycles that are each equpped wth a GPSand cameras to lm France and other countres.er ncredbly dverse landscapes wll then bedgt zed to feed Google' s gant mapng roect


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Why don't we take this deadly OVER-EXPOSUR of private l ife that s now spreading

as far as the eye can see just a little bit rtherImagine that, following on from the xed cameras set up at major intersections to ensure roadtrac safety or at the entrances to buildings toensure security, couch surng is already tkingus to the next, the ultimate, level of revelation.his is where the Google Home inspector turnsup on your doorstep, covered in portable camerasdesigned to reveal o ll and sundry the level of

comfort o f the bathrooms on oer to lowbudgettourists benetting from the hospitality of theInternet's social networks!

he acceleration of History is disturbing We're

forced to call ourselves in to question much moreroutinely than in the past ] he shiingpresent causes great anxiety. Our sense of theeveryday is swept away by a feel ing of inevitability at feeling amounts to a kind of collective

depression ' So said Nathaie KosciuskoMorizet,France's then Secretary of State for StrategicPlanning, in the sumer of 9 Bu t talking ofdepression' isn't saying much Wherever accel-eration of the real ty of the moment prevail s over


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acceleration of the history of the famous shiftigpresent', what is called into question, at every

instant, is the real presence of people and tingsthat, only yesterday, seemed to lastingly surroundus. As an elderly friend, whose young wife neverstopped travelling, sadly confessed to me onceShe doesn 't travel to forget she 's j ust used to not

. ,seeg me anymore.With the exodus of societies tht hav once

again become dispersed, travel is a form ofwidow-hood or widowerhood that encourages each and

every one of us to no longer see what once tied usto, rooted us in, a common past, country, neighbourhood, neighbours, famy or spouse is isalso what the end of private life is, this endlesstranslation of the intimacy of the sedentary ome-

boy into the exma of transportation whrebthe traveller is not so much a new nomad as a passenger in the middle of getting a divorce, criedaway by the inevitabi li ty of everyday exile . .

To try to facilitate reconciliation proceings,

a company in Brussels cal led Fasten Seat Bel ts son airport screens a series o f video clips i etylanguages. he clips are designed to makemanners' easier to achieve in foreign couries,with ust a k . .


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n charge of the proect ponts out: t's funnypeople are travel lng more and more but some of

them behave exactly as they do at home ey' realways n shorts and thongs and only speak thernatve language ' 1

No one really travels n fact they ee theyescape a hated stressl daly grnd. e oldHOME OF ONES ON s now ON ONEn the panoply of communcatng obects elec-tronc trnkets that yo u carry away wth you nths amcable dvorce of repeat delocalzaton

s ths due to the ncrease n lfe expectancy?We mght note whatever the case may be thatthe dvorce rate for people sxy years and olderhas rsen by close to 3% for women and 4% formen . Also accordng to France's nu nanale

dude dmgraphque NED) t's worse forpeople n ther es as the rates have practcallydoubled

Here again, we notice the same acceleration

aswith public transport: for some, it's a case o

supersonicandshortlyhypersupersonicight;forothers, express divorce. Since 45% of marriages

now end in divorce, we may a well simpli

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the usua procedure straght away and make thebreak of oad between spouses even faster and

cheaper wth a aw that speccay combats thenerta of husbands and wves owcost dvorcetrva zng the famy saga of yore hat's whyRachda Dat 's ast proj ect as Keeper of the Seasand Mnster of Justce was to reform dvorceso that a coupe can now separate sub pessmpy by comng before ther notary

A of ths mes t fee as though by endessy shrnng ke the tmes nvoved n the

turnover rate' from movng n to movng out marrage s startng to ast about as ong aswhat occurs n ayactng' the edutanment'practce that s now nothng more than the stagng of the contemporary oss of a sense of rea ty

n ths age of teecommuncatons and the nstantdeocazaton they trggerAddcton to constant trave ke addcton

to changng partners s now part of the usorynature of the autonomy of the od way of fe the

fashon for coaches takng over from the fashonfor the spr tua advsers of re g ous orders or themaster thnkers of tota taran m tantsm

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A striking example of this shift in communal sedentariness can be seen, right now in the

impact of the Internet on monastic life articularly in women's convents where, to date, only25 of France's surviving 270 monasteries are stillresistant to using the WEB- despite the underhand imposition of a new pace of communicationthat is slipping into the spirit of monastic time',as a Cistercian monk from Hauterive points out.1

Yet everyone insists on the essential iscriiation of each monk: he material enclosure is

not an absolute; it is a means he main questionis rather how to experience the relationship tothe world (to the whole world instantaneously)he Internet forces us to have anoter look at orborders and to internalize that enclosure.'2

he B, in fact, potenay opens al thedoors and steps through all the gates of the monasic encosure. Which is why the Benedictines ofBecHellouin Abbey ook he iniiaive of organizing a session on the subjec in the autumn of2009.

As Dom Notker Wol primae of the order,

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noted Detachment silence and solitude,or else the culture of CONNECION an

EVERHING, NOW. here is no more spaceto wait in no more space in which to esire theinnite. In this cuture, waiting is always neg-ative. . . . It means waiting for the end of anoperation and not for an encounter. ' Apropos thecontemplative life of the convent he concudesWe shouldn't so much regulate things based onvirtual culture but on monastic cul ture. ' 1

I t's point less to add here that the sedentariness

of this spiritual cul ture matches, in al respects,the sedentariness behind the customary urbanityof the city and of the xed settlement of popula-tions that were once nomadi, like the monks ofearlier orders the rule of aint Benedict. hose

monks were also nomadic rvau) and subectto unforeseen events in a meanering that wasconducive to al l kinds of deviant behaviour, con-templation for them being just a soli tary form ofprayer

Lastly we might mention that once he wasback frm the concentration camps, Primo Leviwould spend hours in fro of his computer

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screen without writing or at his mother's bedside waiting for night and the reease of seep

te ing his friends and famiy over and over again before throwing himsef down the stairwe of hishome and kiing himsef is is worse than atAuschwitz '

e end of private ife i s a new knd of povertyin terms of iving conditions' and not just thecost of iving' anymore e contemporary dropin socia standing impied by the emergence of a

community of synchronized emotions turns intoa disaiation at once both famiia and sociathat wi eventuay go nationa and nay territoria' with the undermining of the PCE aswe as the CONNECTION of common ife

Rght now we are seeing the rst signs of a disaiation that is anima with the burring ofMASCULINE and FEMIN INE genders inaugurating an immnent DEMATERNALIZATIONof women No doubt that wi end tomorrow

in the disconnection o f reproduction from thehuman race a future postsexuaity' that wi

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supposedy be so iberating for women as weas for their incrediby cumbersome pregnancy

e industriaization of ife wi then take overwhere the industriaization of death eft o, in tecamps where one Dr Mengee reigne supreme,incrediby preoccupied as he was with win birthsand coning.

n fact, the notion of a crime against humani ty,eaborated neary a century ago, no onger excu-sivey concerns the extermination of a or part ofthe human race aong the ines of the cinica

genocide perpetrated by the Nazis, or even theatomic ee of the Cod War period, with itsbance of terror t more simpy concerns theut imate endangering of our daiy routines, of away of ife' that was, in the end, quite ordina n

the near ture, i f we're not carefu , this wi eadto a vitaty made fundamentay uninhabitabeby the excessiveness of an oppressive eagerness,a ife without a user's manua', in the words ofGeorges Perec, an NFODNARY vivacity

unti biodiversity of the human kind is nayexhausted

To iustrate this probabe DSLOCATONin daiy ife, we might cite a case brought beforethe inustria tribuna of Oyonna, a town n h

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Ain region of France. In 9 the tribunal hadto examine a complaint for a violation of the

right to a family life brought by the employeesof the ED supermarket red for refusing to workon S undays, failure to observe working ho urs andinsubordination. eir lawyer put it this waySince there is no case law dealing with workingon Sundays, we'll base our case on a ruling of thenal Court of Appeal which says that, for nightwork, the salaried employee needs to have signedan agreement.' She concludes It will actually

be particularly interesting to see if the industrialtribunal recognizes the RIGH O A FAMILLIFE as a higher principle than the right to paidwork. '

Day and night, all through the week and on

Sundays, twentyfour hours a day, seven days aweek . . . that's a way of li fe that has no direc-tions for use, no mde dmpl, other thanthe repetition of repetitive processes. After theforced localization of the age of deindustriali

zation, forced dislocation is getting under wayto the rhythm of a Progress now openly unnatu-ral. Meanwhile, the case would seem tricky to

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plead as the rght to refuse', to cvl conscen-tous objecton, has scarcely any reaty as a legal

enttyBeng sucdal was once a psychologcal state

but t can consequently turn socologcal, whenwe deregulate the way we regulate tme andts rhythms ther mde dmpl, to the pontof causng anxety, the permanent angush ofcommuntes, as s already happenng n telecom-muncatons companes where the harm done bystress has become fatal.

We must nsst that the ture does notbelong to fear', Presdent Obama told the Un tedNatons n hs address o f September 9 Hewas takng about the major rsks o f nuclear pro-lferaton. But, more ntmately ths statement

should also apply to the ssue of our mde de, our way of lfe, the eveyday lfe of a perodmarked by precarousness and the nstabltyof the EMPO drvng local communtes nthe grp of the fear caused by the devastatng

progress n nteractve technology. at progresss nothng more than the progress of a del r ouslybustlng eagerness, not to say a collectve rage,trggered by a sudden panc that's turned nto aPANDEMIC. A pandemc that has evethn


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to do wi th the real ity eect of acceleration ofinformation and its sudden demands For, the

INSTANTANEITY of t disarray of each oneof us w soon contaminate the way of li fe of all

So, after the rise of MILITARY DETER-RENCE and its fall at the end of the cold warit would seem that the cold anic' of a worldoverexosed to major risks is beginning to be felt .ese risks include not only blind terrorism butalso ecology and, esecially, a tannical oli ticaleconomics, with the temtation for certain fans

of ersonal sace' of launching what would thistime amount to CIIL DETERRENCE egovernance of ublic fear wod then shi frothe battleld of the ast to the marketlace. Inother words, to an everyday life that wil l soon be

made impossible ravaged as i t is by the domesticterror' of each and every instant; the excess seedof the ashing tasks to be erformed taking overfrom the crashes once involved in road accidents .

Isn't there already talk here and there of

the future requirements for a SUSTAINABEMOBILITY that will best ensure sustainabledeveloment? Big fans of management throughstress certain CEOs even claim that we canno longer let immobility set in', suggesting


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that the TIME TO MOE' docrine shouldbe imosed throughout the globalied business

rm Everywhere you look, the broadband oftelecommunications is contaminating the use towhich we ut the week, its me 'empi withthe elimination of Sunay as a dayo followedby the elimination of the daily interrution oflunch. Imosition of the JUSTINTIME con-tinuous day anticiates the inertia of the fatalinstant and the unstoable oensive of theNANOCHRONOLOGIES along the lines of

the lightning crash' of 6 May200

when hewal l ofWal Street suddenly crashed into the wal lof money the MONEY BARRIER at recisely2 25 m.

Aer the contin uum of terrestrial sacetime)

till now seen as the aen variae of ourvarious activities, the dromosheric ressreof technical rogress now aects individualitythroughout the whole anoly of oulationssubject to the death throes of instantaneous inter-

activity For this latest tyranny suddenly becomesthe uimae variae in a demograhic adjust-ment of ro e uanaive Malthusianismof the ast is now couled with a uaiaiveMalthusianism whereby the usua ethnic raism


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will be rounded o by an Olympic' racismSports competitions and the feats of the latest

stadium god' will then abandon the podiumfor an onthespot race, opting for the inertia ofthose that telecommunications have lockd upalive in other words the victims of electronicdoping: the doping carried ot b the cberneticfuturism of the global governance of humanit.

his is the reason for the successive disaliations mentioned above with the probable declinein politics and the geopolitics of place as well as

of social connection in i and hi etuc

infavour of simul tanei ty and its telebjective ubi-uity It is also the reason for the progressive'externaization of connections of all kinds andthe repetitive delocalization of common space

and public services in other words of the democratic cit as we learned about it through thehis tory of settlement

And so, aer the disintegration of matterthrough nuclear ssion, we are now looking

on, powerless or as good as, at the early stagesof the disintegration of the historical transitionof past time and at the fsion/confsion of theshareholder in this COMMUNION OF HESANS ofinteractivit's global brain e social


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body sudeny metamorphoses into a sort ofmystica body of humanity perfected ith the

DROMOSPHERE of acceeration standing inin exemis, for the NOOSPHERE the sphereof human thought of Gods eect according toT eihard de Chardin himsef a victim of the greatbrainashing' of the propaganda of Progress

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C rcu shorcrcu here s no crcus whou a crce, he kukloJ of Ancen Greece and

he Oympc cyclades of he acceleraion o od!In a year aer he launc n he mddeof the econo mic csis, of the G reat Acceerator,that CATHDL bu by CN n Geneva,a crcuar TPL but for te ast ap of e

Formua wod cponshp opened n AbuDab a s n e mdde of he deser .

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2010 Gand i, at its ount ui cicuit , inode to commit itsel o nding esh solutions

to he prob ems o do estic m ob iiy.is is what a special coespondent rom

e ewspape, e Figaro, ad o say abou eToyo Moor So':

'd neve tested a new mode on a shooomcapet beoe . Ye i as on te eight oor of anoce bock that was initiated into the utueo diving in an iRA this singleseate vehicecetainy maes do wit very itt e room [sic], te

equivaent o a comortable amchai mountedon th ree heels. ' 1 the apanese motor comp ay s having t rou

be aacting younger generations o he car, iis now eecivey aunching ise ino e more

estained mobility o aduts and especialy senios. Being longstanding consumes o domesticautomo bi lity aeady, why wouldn 't senios tunou t to be tomoows geat ans o these electicsigeseaters ta can go on te ootpat, i not

inside an aparmen buding and even ae te i' ?2

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H ence the invention o this othopaedic p osthesis aimed at the senios maket a maket that

wi, tomorow, expode througout the industiaize wod. at prospect or gowh wie par and pace o a vogue n stacks o veryg udings, tese TOWRS tat ae areadyoking up in the tens o thousands in J apanese andChinese cities such as Chongqing wth its thitymi ion inhaitants. Nicamed FOG CTYChongqing is one o the most pouted cities onthe panet ese ays its cene is cuttered wit

hundeds of wecks o abandoned tais.eaded y men in peect eat, wit theso apty named iRea, te weechair o crippes tuns nto a somewhat ata souton to theweck o he cy to come and o he aiue o

tomoows concentation campike wod ciy.With the ecent pomotion o this msidentied taveing oject the undamentayNCAACTATNG natue o the technica pogess end tis piece o urnture on

wees' is ovious and ecoes te bica aeso he in d man and the parayi c.

e Rea engine is actuay diven y andthanks to wo uttons i ke the ones used in videogames: No evese you t tun had e o


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ight and swivel ound on the spo t. It s as simpeas a videogae consoe and eques only smal

movemens o the gh o e wrst . As o seed,tat's m ited to 6 km a hou, u a apidseedseig o u o 30 km a ou s avaae '

We ae, ovious, a ee om he saghtl in e of the Abu ha speedway o which single-seates tave at ove 300 k an our. But e'eevey it as a, t woud seem, o he roo mwod ecod o sai Bo who, wh his owntwo egs, an a over km an hou on aveage

ao und the Be in stadi um tack duing te wo ldahetc championsips on 5 August 200 - he east o e Assumio !

f not exacy sing up ino he sky, he sta-dum god hee s ke he emes o mh, ha

god o tavees ut aso o thieves, cheats, heissue of doping remaining today unesoved forthe whoe aay of spots eats in these days ofthe paalymic expo its o f genetc engi neeingo G O s .

Whee An Gorz once condemnedN CAPAC ITATI NG occupa ons as be ng ikeyto ead to automaton and a stuctu ra uepo

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ment that woud be na and no onge cycicawe note that its now the pogessives o a

sties tat ae accusing gaoing automation ocimes against umanity. Suc widespead automation no onge eads to anyting but ineiate araysis brougt on by a socaed impovement in poductivity wheeby the human bodytends to ose one by one the chaacteisics othe AN IA eam that once distinguished manom pant and m inea !

t 's ou sous we need to cange not te

cimate pescibed Seneca that aposte o anecoogy o te moving being tis iving beingwose anima is obviousy not a genus as sexis o some peope but a ealm the ream o aspecies endowed wit te movement o being

whee maiage is wen you espouse t ave 1

especiay when te atte is cicua!In act the histoic eansion o the accee

ating sphee o ou physica activities once soric n expeiences wit te anguage o dance

and te coreogay o voyages o nitiationin wic we set out to discove te vastness oou own wod oday eads to the aw o east

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actio n o ybenetic i nteactivity I n othe wods,to the moment o i neia o instananeous in te

acton and, so, to postura dsabiity, te nseenoss o the st o o reedo ms, the eedom omovemen at caracerzed te uman ace.

So, antcpatng te deveopmen o teNANOTCHNOLOGS o the innieysma o pogess , but aso he deveopment othe NAN OC H RO N O LOG S o the i nniteyshottem o cybe netic instantaneiy in o thewords, te deni tve poweessness o or aware

ness o the acts and o ou jdgement o vauesn te ace o the sudden meamo rpos s o ouenvronment we st have to gu e out teacta naue o ou esponsibiy egading tepotion caused by technoogica pogess, as

we as by the ehaustion o he chonod ivesiyo the instan, an instant om now on not souch pesent as absent om ou awaeness oou behavio us

ust ae attemptng to comm sicde,

Catene Kooszka, te head o te a s epat-ment o ega p otecto n o m nos, wote :

Any ng ta goes oo as dves you nsane,destoys you. I aos died because spent myie a my job, quie convinced I was uphoding

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the educaioal vau es of th isi tt o. I amosdi o f he deaess of a i situ io tha d id

ndersand a veng was gong oo as,so as we cold no logr kep p [ . . . ] anda acceeraon o cange was under nge nst io ' s educaioa sson and produc-ig abuse. iferna achine resses on aaswhout woing abou ua e ings.

Icapactaing occupaio ysterday, au-se adminsrao today. Tomorow, whaw appn we CYB RWO RLD as

oce ad for a sveted th space ad ti,e con nuu , o our ae? Y no one s or-rying aou ta parca sna, or aboute droospric presure aready overwem-ng poaons sress. Pope are e

eng sstized o te dangrs of atmoshercssue of clmate cag of a thooughl co-taminaed old. o on is evr concned ab oue g locked p beh d te osed doors of teccoron o cerncs.

n an ipora rport o stress a wok andeto e Frenc governen n te autn o

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2009, we leaned ha 33% o saaied emploeesae now scaed a wo. I his saisica soc

ake o pscoogca ad socal rsks we asoleaed ha o 2.6% o sa is he q an owork s oo oe excessve wereas or 30% s e qua se o e work a s ssesince he pessure o ime no l onge gives peopleenough ime o nish wha hee doing.

Once upon a ime people wee amiar inadvance wh he ear o oced laor i penacoo es o wic covcs were depored .

u wha dom naes in he middle o hese li beal es s ear o cose ork o ae eare o e jo or e as a and.

e o e characersic o is enq uir sowsa 4% o slar ed empl oees eel as u eaa e

sress he obl gaon o hide hei emoions whlehe'e a wor an oligaio wrien ino heiconac.

We see hen ha his pschopahoogcalapproac o jobs ared reaeed o a sides

w be g oved oso re or w e prod cv- gans o aou aoma on as i capaca ngad usve desons a renorce eac oe

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mutu to t ot ogss, hic,to Edga lla o, t tt ctu,

was j ust t rs o dcp tud as suddn,i t tntrst cntu , tu rnd nto t rzo stuacto .

anks to t rs o tc noog ad t s toos,scc has fact bcom ot ol fuctoalbut also, abov a , fuctoast . . . s ic func-tio now gats th comot

Today t most isg cat o tchn ologicpsedonovatons vr quick bcos a h-

tch idustr, ad t a sstm fo catgac, as v s t t WB and ts a-comassng ntwork, tout an pcautosb ing tak i th us . is soo lad to tgrat bakdon of t ntrnt te xposio of

th omatio bomb, wc will obabl doaab damag to th digta coom.1Aopos, ot t curt caze fo aotch-

oogs tat othig il o sto, a mota t b ogrg o G O s as stopd

srda, or gngnerng o t c at stod tomoro, or not og a.

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e latest conrmation of this is te settingup, n Beijing, o a Bureau of Meteoroogca

Modictos, resposibe for the national cmate of China. As it happens, the bureau recentyweathered an avalanche of crticsm for havnginduced unseason snoalls ose snowfalls grounded hundreds of planes and caused anmber of roa accdents for Beijng residentscaught out by phenomenon created by the massdispersion of chemica prodcts n clouds in a bidto reeve te persistent drought in the nort of

the county 1But the fata convergence, noted in tepages above, of contro and abuse in the workpace, can aso be expained by the fact that inChina, s esewhere, it is the diverse fors o

the TOLITARIAN experence tht are nturn converging e globaization o the SingeMarket and the instantaneity of interactive telecommunications are i nducing a usion/consionof extremisms and the deliberate hybridization of

ths ' tyranny ofrea tme, ths COSMOTHEISM ,behnd a urbocapitasm that reprouces theexcesses of Soviet COSMISM in te days just

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efore the S S iploded he big ag ofhistorica ateriais edig i the very cyer-

ec accidet o wh c we are now vict ms. eSYSTM C C S of Wall S ree i l lstraesperecty o ony e Gargatan are of ascence wto a coscece wch s ogore tha he ri of he sol . Aove al iteposes the Ga rgata appeie of a eco om csciece that is ow withot codece eigohig ore ha he ri ofhe S igle Marke th e very poss l iy of ro pro hro gh hg-

freqecy radig sddely coig to a ed orclose o , for oe ve sm ple reaso : codeceis one ng tha ca ever e ista

a is he reaso for this sayale fear ofsock marke volaly the face of he BG

CUNCH of credit i other wors , of ives-tors e ief ad secl ative faith we cofroted he eree certai y of te oe . I ay 2010, that fear lead to what traders hem-seves cal e ear dex e Marke Voay

ndex (M V) . is baroeer o a cpaedmarke voaly was coceived as early as 3 ,wie te CASH of Ocoer 87 was stilfresh i everyoe s i d.

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i : has STATA ET become fo the maeiaists of the Sigle aet what ETEIT

once was fo te sp ua ss?Wi te deveopen of oey in te M dde

Ages te te a so ce or seou s debate aboute egt acy of cedt an of eestbeagloas Usuy was ohibted fo Chistias acosidee a moal si a act of the the oftime which belogs oly to God sice iteestcarges te time tat has eapsed betee teoan ad ts ei b useent .

Today we ca easily imagie how his issem gt once aga n ca into ques on e reav to m e o f spacet e and ts coi uu w cs at the cete of the debates o te futue ofoo ows wo d econo

If is wee ieed the case te tuismof he istat would me its ety boh iHEOOG ad i he THOO of thestoc echage of values wih the political econo cs of see ergng fo e on wt

tat of te wea of naosMeawie a evet way ouside te om

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a SSEC CS thats ure accideta,what do ou do ?

We need to forge aot time at the most fun-daenta eve . e do' eed at partcuarparameter to descrie e ord ta surrondsus. e teoretical framework I roose allowsus to do ito ut it: tis s the frameor of looquaum gravt. So speaks the hysicist CarloRoeli , an adep, ke so man others, at thecon fs on of he geera reaiv ity of the pscs

of he in i tel i g ad the quatum mecanicsof he ie sma .fter e End of Histo was forecast as

cetu, the End of Time s ow beig fore-cas, cera heoreica pscs, u aso

reatio o oical economics. he e d what is ost revealg this ge-era disarra is erhas what Beot adebroclaimed i 2004, whe he said tha the co-venioa matematca modes eoed

e stoc mare are no o wrong; e aredagerous wro g.

enoit anbrt (s)Bhvur f ks NewYrk B Bk 2004, p . 276

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acd wh h o o a cash a wsoo ssmic, w hav o choc u o ask

ou rsvs aou powlssss o sav coo-ss o p ala ls t rgg sadl or a quar o a cu and, aca, sinc 87 cras

Trng o dsc h caasohic swgsosrvd ov such a log piod oughou tS gl ak, adl o noducd m u ac-al and tus ushd iso o ancino a daic world, wr sock ark ad-

ng m o l og has ag n com mo whscal , sc, i s w odl, adngi spds up cock i riods o hg voa-til i, and sows down i ods o sali , sac o acal go cog

wh h muacl' coom of h fouhdimsioi ou osso mrus, h, s o

og jus cical spc' t s hadd, u acio o sor, criical spaci

o s o co!Wi Bot Mando, , o

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ALBBBLS, o us wihi heease of eal esae bu aso wihi ie , he

ong draions o e word eco nom' so dear toead Braude

Srage, we noe e again a e oo'ad e sere soo o e ore as og ecicua ime o das goe b was easseig isighs over e liea time o a Poges ocecoiuos

Ae Kar Poer's famous feedack oos,Caro Rovei as we've s seen ow i rodces

his loo quau gavi' Ci rcuar i e eserda i ear ime o rogressig ow ad omorrow or soo aer nodob, aks to adebo gobaliaian ime ee T E fom e La tempus wic

efered o a facio of daion' as disincfo aevum which was used o f coiui anof a ea ' ea is e ACC T O E DALL ACCS is is because ifac-a eracon of e draios invoved i soc

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of teactve CONNCON domates oal sdes ow the eta of ACE S the etaof xt as well as of m mo t

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athe, ack of ime, ivolved i the eodus offee will ad democacy, with eveyoe aeced

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origis of astrohsics l this shod aert usto the egaomaia of a sciece derive of a

critica conscience and coped with a sort ofmegaloscop o f te i itey sma , were t eRG RO COL L D R of G enevacas to revea ive te creation of te wo rd,o ess at the o viou s ris of rocreatig a lachole of o amlitude , te sa o out oreassure us aout the riss ig ru

ose riss ave sare ega roceedigsinstttd snr merica psicsts and

oter theorists of chaos such as Otto Rsslerfro Gtinge iverst, aganst ther CRNcoeages

is seeda where te andscae is teac of a landscape , the xodus o fte seed of ight

actuall leads to a crash of reaso, of commosese What the surges , ex abruo is theAccie i Time triggred a phsics tat isow the v ictim of a coma aectig al kowedgeacu ired ere eow

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space of the NAOO tat suo uds us,the etea peset o f elatiis will soo eig

suree as o rg, to e deie o tecu bersoe p rocesses of H istory

t s odd, a e sae, to see tat oug eastropsc sts o exo b oog appear to e i eve uiersal lfe sead thoughout outer space, thestill refuse to believe i ife eveastig

'0 ye hypocrites, ye ca d isce te face of tesy, bu can ye n ot disce te sgs of te t ie s? (atew 6 : 3 ) . s prase o Crst s sees

to e di ected at oday s glo ba ciate cageecologss wo srage eave out gre ecolog,te sudde reteton o s

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