Speaking of the contemplative nature of contemporary man , a j o urnalist j okingly p u t it this way: ' He's an exhibitionist who's been placed under observation in custody. '
Surrounded by his screens and subject to video control and the discipline of programs, as well as to the rules of in teractivi ty, this new PHOTOSENSITIVE being turns into a consenting victim of a progress that amp utates his private life, with electro-optical addiction to information more and more alienating him from his sense of sel f.
Hence the denial of engagement per se (political, syndicalist . . . ) in favour of an emportement - getting carried away, rage - that only mass individualism has the knack of, where once collectivism merely imposed engagement, the fact of having only one party facilitating the lack of any 'conscientious obj ection'!
lhe inertia of the photosensitive onlooker thus corresponds to the mutation of the traveller and the fi.1rtive gliding of a mode of private 'automobile' transport, that mode of public transport involved in the mass exodus of interconnected individual ities .
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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