Hypermonde

Etymologiquement (Greek root “huper”), a hypermonde is a world which is “above” or “beyond” of our world. The adjective “hypermondial” is used to indicate all that is attached to it. The history of this term reveals two different directions, according to the context in which it is used.

Two distinct meanings

In science fiction

In 1935, Régis Messac composes the neologism “hypermonde” during creation of the literary collection of the same name to the editions of the open Window (Issy-les-Moulineaux). Into its foreword with Quinzinzinzili , the first volume of the collection, Régis Messac introduces the definition of the hypermonde thus:

Nothing wears more quickly than literary exoticism, Nothing more monotonous than the processes employed “to recreate” the atmosphere of the remote countries. (…) That it is with Kharbine, with Ceylon, with Santiago, Salonique, Honolulu or Chicago, there are always men who eat or who drink, which sings or which cries, which entretuent or makes love. Always a sky and a ground, animals and trees - or not of animals and not of trees, which is only more monotonous. And Paul Morand itself becomes impotent to start the small shock, the shiver of the nouveau.
Alors, one is caught, like Alexandre, to wish other worlds. These worlds, they exist only for the travellers in chambre.

Then it gives hypermondes this first défnition:

They are the worlds out of the world, beside the world, beyond the world, invented, guessed or foreseen by men with the rich person imagination, poets. It is necessary to visit them to undertake the imaginary voyages, the voyages impossibles.

This first direction of the term is found today in the universe of the science fiction, as the use testifies some that makes of it Serge Lehman in the title of the introduction to its anthology Chasseurs of dreams, the golden age of the French science fiction (editions Omnibus, 2006).

In political and social philosophy

In 1990, the expression “hypermonde” is employed by Pierre Berger to indicate, for the first time, the immaterial space created by the convergence of the Technologies the information. In 1998, Jacques Attali brings a dimension Géopolitique at the end by integrating in its definition the influence of the laws of the market.

In 2006, Gerard Ayache develops in his book Great confusion the idea that the hypermonde is not only one metaphorical expression, but a Concept. The hypermonde would be consubstantial mondialized market and Hyper-information, the market and information while being the effect and the cause. According to Ayache, the concept of “Mondialisation” which is used from now on commonly on the whole of planet appears insufficient to include/understand the current world. It limits the analysis to the only prevalence of the economic one; it connotes concepts exceeded such as the Impérialisme to give an account of reality; it does not translate sufficiently the weight of the Hyper-information in the reconfiguration of the company and the individuals; and it does not make it possible to consider its process like an anthropological phenomenon, obeying the laws of the mankind.

Random links: