So, employment as a way of life, a mode de vie, is superseded by life as a user's man ual , Ia vie mode d'emploi, as Georges Perec would say, for a new kind of provisional society, one excessively instrumentalized and endlessly incited to overreact to this or that signal , all the diverse stimuli o f a permanent state of alarm. In that state, the instantaneity of what crops up unexpectedly will doubtless condition the p<sub>�</sub>tting into a trance not of the citizen-soldier anymore b ut of a ci tizen-subject, wi thin a 'social network' that will soon replace the network based on the physical proximity of actual people. People like our old neighbours, who we'd so often bump into in the PLACES behind the SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY of our past domiciliary inertia. lhe private life of each and every one of us will gradually yield to the overexposure of a semi-public life where the intimacy available to people generally will be like the intimacy enjoyed by detainees under observation in police custody. For, the old CAMERA OBSCURA of panoptical surveillance turns out to have been nothing more than a clinical symptom of the imminent obliteration of any private life.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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