Presenter, male or female- this denomination is revelatory of the latest of ' futurisms' : that of the electrotechnical doping perpetrated by the OMNIPRESENT instant that so relentlessly tortures former 'j ournalists', who 've suddenly segued into 'instan taneists'. Tomorrow, it will afect each and every one of us, transforming the ordinary life of sedentarized societies, here or there, into an 'infra-ordinary' life. For, the photosensitive inertia of viewers will shortly cat<;:h up wi th that of their favouri te presenters, the inertia of the real instant of the newsflash standing in for the fixed-property inertia o f their domiciliation. 'TI1e delocalization of our use o f space, l'emploi de l'espace, will be doubled by disorientation in o ur use of time, l'emploi du temps, in a daily life once given rhythm by the alternation o f days and nights, and now shattered by the breaks in rhythm caused by an entirely denatured acrobatic vi tal i ty.
I t's as if the end of lifetime employmen t, wi th its very long durations and its professional constraints, had suddenly mutated in the face of the disciplinary demands of the unforeseen, the unexpected, of the 'just-in-time' nature of tight distribution, for the very people who are already no longer producers, actors o f progress, but mere onlookers, consumers of the background noise of an INTERREACTIVITY that takes the place of the INTERMED IATI ON of the employees of the not so distan t past.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
1 'Audrey Pulvar en fourche une nouvelle vie', in Paris . \tlatch, 22 July 2009.
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