In any case, the current debates between historians over MEMORIAL LAWS, codified bills dedicated to the memory of specific victims of historic crimes, clearly point to the damage done by 'progress' regarding the no tion of historical an teriority and i ts great narratives, which are in the pro cess of disappearing. What is rising to the fore in their stead is what certain people are already calling the 'great national novel' .
S o , what we are now seeing, after the topographic and geometric efraction of distances, is the anachronistic efraction of the time intervals required for efective knowledge as well as for memory of the facts. FRACTALIZATION of physical expanse is coupled with fractalization of d urations relative to the CONTIN UUM of a general H istory that's in the process of being instantaneously obliterated.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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