I f this were efectively to happen, the current delocal ization of productio n would in no way lead to some fu ture relocal ization of activity, indust ri al o r oth e rwise . I t would lead to a de fi n i tive EXTERNALIZA TION - OUTSOURCING - o f t h e urban race, righ t here o n t h i s t i ny tell u ric planet - until salvation came in the form of some other 'promised land', thi s one EXO PLANETARY, the single-file exodus of the b ibl ical epic yieldi ng to the looped exodus of a circus prophesied, in a way, by the circular accelerato r in G eneva!
The vi rtual otherworld of cybernetics is, in fact, nothing more than the anachronism of an othertime, in wh ich the critical space of Mandelbrot' s ' fractal s' 1 merges with the critical i nstant of a fundamentally uninhabitable continuu m . That continuum is just the anamorphosis of the practical real ity of a fo rgotten to pography, since the repetition of all o u r movements, as well as of a natio n ' s actions (th e i r p o l i t ical l i t u rgy) , regi sters a lot more forcibly in the dom iciliary fixity of 'sedentary man' than in the headlong rush , the forced exile, of unbridled 'nomadism' . H ence the u rgency of a question that is now central or, more precisely, term inal : the question o f the nature of IN ERTIA, in the age o f the revolution in information and the apparently unremarked transference of the F IXED-PRO PERTY inertia associated with the real estate of PLACES - LIEUX- to the POLAR inertia of CONNECTIONS - LIENS. For, twenty-first-century interactivity now dominates the standardization of behaviours and activities that characterized both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. And that domination e ntails an i ncreased ECO SYSTEMIC risk of paralysis or, rather, the sudden tetraplegia of a societal body whose perpetual motion is frozen in each of its limbs and whose structural unemployment is now a self-fulfilling prophecy.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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