Nowadays, unlike in the ind us trial era of manufacturing plants and factories analysed by Marxism, we no longer explore - we expel . We also exterminate more and more frequently, the STOP EJECT of those damned to exodus thereby taking over from the STAND BY of yore!
Both the settling of the peasantry on the land where it all began and the fixed-property inertia of the city-dweller are now being overtaken by the real instan t's devastating inertia or, more precisely, its momen t of inertia, in an INTERACTIVE simultaneity that shakes up all settling down, any deep-rootedness. On that score, note that the very fi rst law of urbanism is: reten tion of the site. At this stage in the history of h uman, but also urban , settlemen t, ' territorial insecuri ty' is at an all-time high and the terri torial sovereignty of the legitimate national state is in danger of being lost forever in the face of the HYPERCOLONIALIST threat posed by sovereign wealth funds' grubby land-grabbing, monopolizing all lands and their resources. 1he old poli tics of the droit du sol, the righ t to ci tizenship, gives way all of a sudden in the face of the exorbitant privileges of a sort of AEROPOLITICS, which is not only ecological but economic. 1his is what lies behind the droit du ciel, the right to the sky, to heaven, to all the heavens and to the virtual space of interconnected financial markets, with the high-frequency traders who engage in flash trading here playing Russian roulette, every day, with the fate of the world in a lightning war whose weaponry is provided by high-flying (sic) cybernetic systems, the old sovereign ty of nations gradually disappearing. What shoots to the fore instead is a MET A-GEOPHYSICAL poli tics for nations that are 'stateless', or as good as, now that the correligionists of h umanity's SERVOMOTOR are joining forces with those of a computerized PANTHEISM . Gaia, the Earth Goddess of triumphant ecology, is already a symptom o f this.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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