ABSTRACT
It is in our distress, Jean-Luc Nancy says, that we know our coexistence. He identifies the dimensions of our distress: the exterminations, the expropriations, the technicizations, and the simulations that darken the present and the future of our coexistence.1 How are the exterminations wrought upon peoples in Haiti, Africa or Central and Eastern Europe, the expropriations suffered by tribal peoples and peasants by loggers and landowners and by the depreciation of the market for the products of the land-and also the culture of technicization and simulation that reigns in the richest urban technopoles our distress?
