B IG BANG , BIG CRUNC H . I n the absence of any true pol itical economy of speed, one dealing with the wealth of the developed nations, these events lead to a relativist felony, an extremely serious distortion of competition in a market that is no l o nger singl e i n the real time of stock market exchanges, even if it remains single in the real space o f the global ization of profits. The capacity of a few big banks to engage in flash orders, using computi ng power analogo us to the power of nuclear deterrence in the hands of the top b rass o f the m i l itary, calls i nto questi on the very basis of free co mpetition in a turb ocapitalism clearly nearing its end .
Th is, I think, explains the importance of the term ANAM O RP H O S IS in relation to temporal i ty and to the sudden tempo ral compression of financial data before the curvature , the distorting m i rror, of the continu um of an econo mic history that resides today in the astro nomical TEM PO of an instantaneity and an in teractivi ty that once and for all spurn the old laws of a competitive market where the felony of insider trading, perpetrated by cheats, was still com m i tted wi thi n the common historical TEM PO of the chronology of days, hours and seconds - not wi thin the NANOCH RONOLOGY of nanoseconds, pi coseco nds or femtoseco nds of an ' i nformation b o m b ' that is cu rrently i n the p rocess o f exploding before our very eyes.
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