As for us, if in the near fu ture we let som e M useum of the H istory of F rance settle permanently, whether i n Paris or somewhere else, we will very swiftly fi nd ourselves occupied - and extremely preoccupied . . . M aybe we are already.
Everyone knows that time is revealed and then revolves, is gone. The REVOLUTIONARY of bygo ne days is now about to be eliminated by the revelationary fo recaster, the REVEALER of postmodern times.
Apropos the ' system i c crisis' i n the T EM PO of the stock market and in the future of an illusion, that o f getting the world economy back of the ground, some people are already flagging the alarm ing development of distortion of competition fo r si ngle-market tu rbocap ital ism . And it's happen ing right where the dromologist would insist on the term ANAM O RPHOSIS for the temporal i ty of the i nstant , as most clearly descri b ing thi s financial fas:ade that can no longer be seen except by watching images on STOCK EXCHANGE screens, and, then, only fro m a particular angle: that o f the cu rved distorti ng mirror of the rou ndness of the te rrestrial gl obe - in other wo rds, the continuum of an accelerating 'globalization o f afects' by traders operating in a market that ' s now, once and for all , i nterconnected thro ugh PROG RAM TRADING, through the synchronization of an interactivity that makes a whole new kind of insider trading possible.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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