Actually, the world of the pharaohs of finance i s not flat as they clai m . I t is m i n i scul e , i nfinitesimal - j ust l ike the degree zero of a tech ni cal Progress that would no lo nge r fool anyone, without its p ropaganda . So, with the breaking and ent e ring i nto the insta n t , the fractal izat i o n o f h i storical TEMPO, the NANOTECHNOLOGIES beh ind the reality efect open up the u nheard of possibility of trumping the economic with the astronomic. When that happens, the science of the ecological habitat will really shake up the habitus of societies once settled in sedentary fash ion, with the routine nature of our daily timetables, our emploi du temps, being totally abolished. The ACCELERATION of flows of all kinds will the n supplant - this time for good - the historical ACC UMULATION of stocks of wealth, o f goods once housed in that reservo ir, the ci ty of men.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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