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Accoyer, Bernard 2
aeropoli tics 23 , 28, 29-3 0, 41-2
Agacinski , Sylviane 47
anamorphosis 6-7, 8-9 , n , r 8
archi tccture 48-9
Arendt, H annah 84
Armstrong, Neil 4o
atheism 9-10, 25-6
Attali, J acques 20
Big Bang of program trading 7 theory 87-8
bio- and geo-engineering 75-6
Blankfei n, Lloyd 1 5
Bonhoefer, Dietrich 22
B ri tain City of London 7 B attle of 5, 6
'casino economy' 29
CERN: Hadron Collidcr 25-6 , JO, 66-7, 8 5-7, 88-90, 92-3
Chardin, Teilhard de 65
Chassin, Lionel Max 12
China Bureau of Meteorological Modifications 76 computer technology 91
chronometers 28-9
Churchill, Winston 5
communal households 49
communism of afects 3 2-3 , 43-4 in teractive 37-8
computer technology 91-2 In ternet 49 , 5o-1 , 52, 5 6-7 , 75 see also cyberattacks; cybernetics ; flash/ program trading
connections and places 3, r8, 24-5 · 3 5-6, 58, 63-4. 84
cosmotheism 40, 44-5, 76-7, 85-6, 90
couch-surfing 50-1
credit crunch see Stock Exchange/Wall St
cyberattacks 79-80
cybernetics 17-1 8 , 1 9 , 3 2-3 , 40, 42, 71-2, 73
Dati , Rachida 55
Davis , G ary 50
delocalization 4, II, 1 7 , 1 9-20, 34, 3 7 see also mobility/ migration
distortion of competition 3 , 6-9. 1 4
divorce 54-5
ecology and aeropolitics 41-2 bio- and geo-engineering 75-6 and cosmotheism 40, 4 of moving being 71 and time/ space compression 23-4, 27-8, 72, 87
Einste i n , Albert 22, 89
employment incapacitating occupations 7o-1, 72-5 l i feti me 32, 3 4-5 and productivity 19-20 and righ t to fam i ly l i fe (Oyonnax industrial tribun al) 59-61
exterior-in terior relationship 3-4
externalization 17, 40
extraterrestrials/U FOs 44-5
fear 61-2 Market Volatility Index (MVI) 77
feedback loops 82, 83-4
financial system see flash/ program trading; Single Market ( turbocap italism) ; Stock Exchange/Wall St
fixed-property inertia see p laces and connections
flash/program trading 7-S, 1 2-1 4, 41-2, 67, Sl and flash crash/ cybercrash 7S-So, S4
fractals/ fractalization 4-5, 1 6-I S, 3 2-3
fu turis m 1-2, 5-6, 9 , I o-n , 1 5 , 20, 21 , 3 4
geo- and bio-engineering 75-6
Google mapping project 51, 52
Gorz, Andre 70-1
Hadron Collider 25-6, 30, 66-?, S5-7> SS-90, 92-3
h istoric time rhythms 31-2
H usserl, Edmund 27
i l l u m inism 22, 2 5 , 26, 2S, 30
incapacitating occupations 7o-1 , 72-5
i nertia 2-3 , 9-1 0 , I I , 1 3 , I S-1 9 , 21 , 27, 3 6-? , 41 , 63, 71-2 connections and places 3 , I S , 24-5> 3 5-6, 64, S4 photosensi tive 34, 37, 45-6
insider trading see flash/ program trading
i nstability S4-5
instantaneous interactive connections see connections and places
I n ternet 49, 50-1, 52, 56-7 , 75
iREAL (electric cars) 6S-70

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j oint tenancy 49

kinematic energy 26-7, S9 Kokoszka, Catherine 72-3 Kosciusko-Morizet, Nathalie 52

Larcher, Gerard 2
laws legislation process 2, 3 memorial 4, 21
Le Gof, Jacques 7S
Levi, Primo 57-S
light of speed/ speed of light 66-?
loop quantum gravity So, S2
loss of confidence II, 14

Malthusianism 63-4 Mandelbrot, Benoit So, Sl-2, S9

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Market Volatility Index (MVI) 77
marriage and divorce 54-5
mathematical models 12-13 , 1 6, 42, 8o
Melnikov, Konstantin 49
memorial laws 4, 21
Ministry of Times 22-3
mob i l i ty/m igration 40, 43 , 45-? _. 49-51 , 53-4· 5 5 'magnetic portals' 21-2 sustainable 62-3
Monet, Claude 89
Museum of the History of F ranee 6, 22-3
nanochronologies 7-9 , 39, 6J , 72
nanotechnologies J , 1 0-11, 16-17, 24-5, 72
newscasts 33-4
N otker Wolf, Dom 56-7
Obama, B arrack 40, 61
ofshore financial havens I 4-I 5
Oprea, Mari us 3 1
other-time 1 7-18
Perec, Georges 3 5, 37, 59
photosensitive i nertia 34, 37, 45-6
places and connections J, 18, 24-5 · 3 5-6. 58, 6 4 , 84
Pop per, Karl 82, 83-4
private l ives 3 3 , 3 6 , 40, 47, 53 · 58
productivity and employment 19-20
program trading see flash/ program trading
relativi ty proposed ministry of 22-4 theory 22, 89
Rimbaud, Arthur 66, 86
Rossler, Otto 8 6
Roth, Joseph 48
Rovell i , Carlo 80, 82
Seneca 71
seniors 49-50, 68-9
Shapiro, Mary 79
Sharing for Seniors Association 49
Single Market (turbocapitalism) 6-7, 1 0 , I I , I 2 , 1 5-I 6 , 3 9-40 , ?6-8, 81-2
social networking 35-6, 50-1
speed of l ight/light of speed 66-7
Stock Exchange/Wall St 6-9, 12-14, 1 5-1 6, 77-84
supercomputing 91-2
surrogate mothers 46, 47
telecommunications 63 , 64
temporality of even ts 5-6
territorial insecurity/iden tity 3 , 4, 1 3 , 1 5 , 2 1 , 41 , 42-3 , 47
time historic rhythms 31-2 Mi nistry of Ti mes 22-3 other-rime 1 7-1 8
ti me/space compression 23-4· 27-8 , 72, 87
ti metables (l'emploi du temps) 1 o-u , 1 3 , 1 7 , 1 9 , 24, 3 4 , 6 1
Toyota Motors 67-8 i REAL (electri c cars) 68-70
travel see mobility/migration
turbocapitalism see S i ngle Market ( turbocap i talism)
UF Os/ extraterres trials 4-5
United States computer technology 91 productivity and employment 19 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 7, 79 Stock Exchange/Wall S t 6-9 . 1 2-14, 1 5-1 6, 77-84
urban exodus II
vision 3 8-9 photosensi tive i nertia 3 4, 37· 45-6
Wagner, Richard 38
women dematernalization of 58-9 surrogate mothers 46, 47
World Wars 5-6

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