In fact, the notion of a crime against humanity, elaborated nearly a century ago, no longer exclusively concerns the extermination of all or part of the human race - along the lines of the clinical genocide perpetrated by the Nazis, or even the atomic geocide of the Cold War period, with its balance of terror. It more simply concerns the ultimate endangering of our daily routines, of a 'way of life' that was, in the end, quite ordinary. In the near future, i f we're not careful, this will lead to a vitality made fundamentally uninhabitable by the excessiveness of an oppressive eagerness, a life without a ' user's manual', in the words of Georges Perec, an INFRA-ORDINARY vivacity - until biodiversity of the h uman kind is fi nally exhausted.
To illustrate this probable DISLOCATION in daily life, we might cite a case brought before the ind ustrial tribunal of Oyonnax, a town in the
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