Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy (Continuum Impacts, 60)

Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy (Continuum Impacts, 60) image
ISBN-10:

1847063063

ISBN-13:

9781847063069

Author(s): VIRILIO, PAUL
Edition: 1
Released: Aug 02, 2008
Publisher: Continuum
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
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Description:

Negative Horizon is Paul Virilio's most original and unified exploration of the key themes and ideas running through his philosophy. 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 over territorial politics of space. 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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