A sym b o l o f a fatal i n ertia, this verbatim account illustrates perfectly the i nexorable nature o f th i s del i rious fu turism that deconstructs all chronology and , with it, the melody line of history as well as the great narrative of our co mmon memory. This is what really lies behind France's recent spate of memorial laws and the growi ng threat to territorial identity of a nation al i ty that is no more self-evident, in the end, than the geopolitical sovereignty o f the legitimate national state . And this, in a glo bal ized wo rld constantly traversed b y i n ternal exiles in a dosed-circuit exodus of j ust-in-time flows of people that so me are al ready referring to as the migratory ofensive of sustainable mobil ity in the twenty-first century - TRACEAB ILITY now being imposed on each and every one o f us. This is why 'magnetic po rtals' have been i nstal l ed i n p o rts and airpo rts, alo ng with 'smart co rri do rs' for passe nger identification that are endowed with full-body scan ners to st rip search all those bodies in endless transit . We all know that whe re there ' s a wall there has to be a door; b ut the o nly real diference between th is wall and the old fo rtified wall that surro unded a city is the virtual nature of the contemporary enclosure of postmodern times, as well as the clinical radiography deployed at the main entrances of our current borders.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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