I f the aerostatic form of sedentary human settlement was once geographically indexed, the aerodynamic form of excl usion, and of the expeled that now prevails over of the exploited of full employment, is not indexed at all.
Hidden behind freedom of movement and mass tourism, the HABITABLE CIRCULATION involved in the forced exile o f both the 'internally displaced persons' of African states and the 'delocalized persons' of developed countries merits more than j ust a cartography now. I t merits a constantly updated trajectography - a sort of PLANETARIUM of the flows of populations in permanent transit - if we are to attempt to trace this uncivilized choreography of the excluded, whose mortality rates never cease growing, beyond the chaos in moral val ues, to the point of extermination and genocide.
Here, a further comment springs to mind. If the political engagement of the responsible individual not long ago j oined forces with the brand of engagement promoted by Sartrian existentialism, we have to say that, in this era of mass individualism of a COMMUNISM OF AFFECTS that are synchronized, what prevails is being carried away, l'emportement. lhis, in both the literal and metaphorical senses of the term: as in the mobile and the portable, and in loss of selfcontrol. lhe acceleration of reality is now part and parcel of the loss of all self-control, when even the accelerating history of historical materialism still took its time - the time needed to get a sense of past history as well as the time involved in a radiant future that Soviet cosmism would try to get of the ground again once the USSR collapsed.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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