The latest confirmation of this is the setting up, in Beijing, of a Bureau of Meteorological Modifications, responsible for the national climate of China. As it happens, the bureau recently weathered an avalanche of criticism for having induced unseasonal snowfalls. Those snowfalls grounded hundreds of planes and caused a number of road accidents for Beij ing residen ts caught out by a phenomenon created by the mass dispersion of chemical products in clouds in a bid to relieve the persisten t dro ugh t in the no rth of the country. 1
But the fatal convergence, no ted in the pages above, of con trol and abuse in the workplace, can also be explained by the fact that in Chi na, as elsewhere, it is the diverse forms of the TOTALITARIAN experience that are in turn converging. The globalization of the Single Market and the instantaneity of interactive telecommunications are inducing a fusion/confusion of extremisms and the deliberate hybridization of this 'tyranny ofreal time', this COSMOTHEISM, behind a rurbocapitalism that reproduces the excesses of Soviet COSMISM in the days j ust before the USS R imploded - the big bang of historical material ism ending in the very cybernetic accident of wh ich we are now victi ms. The SYSTEM I C C RAS H of Wall Street illustrates pe rfectly not only the Gargantuan nature of a 'science without a conscien ce' wh ich is nothi ng more than the ' ruin of the so ul ' . Ab ove all , it exposes the Gargantuan appetite of an economic science that is now without confidence, being nothing more than the ' ruin o f the S ingle M arket', the very possibility of tu rboprofit thro ugh highfrequency trading suddenly co ming to an end, or close to it, for one very simple reason : confidence is one thi ng that can never be instant!
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
1 Sud- Ouest, October 2009.
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