We are, obviously, far here from the straight line of the Abu D habi speedway on which si ngleseaters travel at over 300 km an h o ur. B ut we're every b it as far , i t wo uld seem , from the r oo m world record of Usain Bolt who , with his own two legs, ran at over 37 km an hour on average aro und the Berlin stadium track during the wo rld athletic championships o n 1 5 August 2009 - the ' feast of the Assu mptio n ' !
I f not exactly rising up i nto the sky, t h e stadium god here is like the H ermes of myth , that god of travellers b u t also of thieves, cheats, the issue of doping remaining today u nresolved for the whole array of sports feats i n these days of the paralympic exploits o f genetic engi neering of GMOs.
Wh ere And re Gorz once condem ned INCAPAC ITATING occupations as being likely to lead to auto mation and a structu ral unemployment that would be final and no longer cyclical, we note that it's now the ' p rogressives' o f all stri pes that are accusing galloping auto mation of cri mes agai nst humanity. Such widespread automatio n no longer leads to anything but inenia, the paralysis b rought on by a so-called improvement in productivity whereby the human body tends to lose, o ne by one, the characteristics of the AN I MAL realm that once distinguished man from plant and mi neral !
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
1 L e Figaro, 30 October 2009 .
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