B ut let's get back to the case of the 'surrogate mother', so brilliantly analysed by the French philosopher Sylviane Agacinski. 'This living tool, this metabolical vehicle, 'trivializes pregnancy, which is reduced to simple foetal transport, certain women now even being seen as akin to chartered planes that can efect a sort of co-cartage for others'. 1
lhese are all so many panicky signs of the imminent end of a private life deprived of all 'filial ' identity, from birth on; and when we come of age, we can expect to see ourselves deprived also of any 'terri torial ' identi ty, in situ, by the biopolitical requirement of unending 'social ' traceability. lhe imperatives of ecological security in this latest LEBENSRA UM will also necessitate the same control over distribution to the detriment o f stocks and of the historical accumulation of civil law and the 'rights o f man' that still, until recen tly, prevailed. lhis is why we're seeing the gradual disappearance of self-control and the medical evacuation, by airlift, of the old way o f life, with its customary urbani ty following on from peasant life, that life lived from day to day, to the rhythm of the seasons, in a way the nanochronological acceleration of the interactive instant no longer allows.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
1 Sylviane Agacinski, Corps en miettes. Paris: Flammarion, 2.009 .
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