Virilio - Negative Horizon

Negative Horizon

Medium: Buch

ISBN: 978-1-84706-306-9

Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Erscheinungstermin: 02.06.2008

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This book covers the key themes in Virilio's work: speed; society; virtuality; new technology.

Negative Horizon is Paul Virilio's most original and unified exploration of the key themes and ideas running through his thought. Provocative and forceful, it sets out Virilio's theory of dromoscopy: a means of apprehending speed and its pivotal - and potentially destructive - role in contemporary global society.

Applying this theory to Western political and military history, Virilio exposes a compulsion to accelerate, and the rise of a politics of time - encapsulated in the importance accorded to speed - over territorial politics of space. Moving through human history from the cave paintings at Lascaux that depict the first hunters, to the 'stealth technologies' deployed in contemporary warfare, Virilio shows how resistance to speed and movement has consistently been eroded, and the physical world adapted, in order to satisfy the urge to move further and faster. In exposing what he believes to be the consequences of this constant acceleration for human sensory perception and, ultimately, global democracy, Virilio offers a vision of history and politics as disturbing as it is original.

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Artikelnummer: 9781847063069
Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-84706-306-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
Erscheinungstermin: 02.06.2008
Sprache(n): Englisch
Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2008
Serie: Continuum Impacts
Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
Gewicht: 244 g
Seiten: 224
Format (B x H x T): 129 x 198 x 12 mm
Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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