Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after the War was over that I saw the sea for the first time, in the vicinity of St Nazaire. It was there that I discovered the bunkers.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.

In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the Second World War. I was 7-13 years old during the War and did not really internalise its significance.

There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not only for the TV audiences watching the war at home but also for the army that watches the battle from the barracks.