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Negative Horizon - An Essay in Dromoscopy (Paperback)
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Negative Horizon - An Essay in Dromoscopy (Paperback)
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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.These books are seminal works of
the finest minds in Western thought, including Adorno, Badiou,
Derrida, Heidegger and Larkin. They are works of such power that
they changed the cultural mind when they were written and continue
to resonate today - landmark texts in the fields of philosophy,
literature, popular culture, politics and theology - strikingly
designed, accessibly priced.
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