Annual and seasonal not so long ago, weekly and daily after that, this truly historic rhythmics was to be given a fatal blow by the cybernetic information revol ution. For, the acceleration of common reality swiftly makes practical life, everyday life and not j ust social or family life, impossible. lhis has recen tly resulted i n the atomization, the sudden ' fractalization' of social units which , beyond the risks o f 'communitarianism', entails the incomparably more serious risks of an emotional SYNCHRONIZATION that will lead to a 'communism of afects' on the scale of a planet reduced to nothing, where the real time of 'cyber' instantaneity will, th is time, finally overtake the real space of the time diferences and time distances involved in our indispensable relationship with the world. Desocialization will thereby extend people's current mental and emotional disorientation.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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