Negative Horizon - An Essay in Dromoscopy

Klappentext This book covers the key themes in Virilio's work: speed; society; virtuality; new technology. Zusammenfassung Sets out the author's theory of dromoscopy: a means of apprehending speed and its pivotal role in contemporary global society. Moving through human history from the cave paintings at Lascaux! to the 'stealth technologies' deployed in contemporary warfare! this book shows how resistance to speed and movement has consistently been eroded. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Translator's Introduction: Seven Minutes; Foreword. First Part; The Metapsychosis of the Passenger; The Great Vehicle; Second Part; The Aesthetics of Disappearance; From the Site of the Election to the Site of the Ejection; Third Part; Dromoscopy; The Light of Speed; Fourth Part; The Negative Horizon; The Driving Within; Fifth Part; The Politics of Disappearance; The Strategy of the Beyond; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Degener, Paul Virilio, Paul/ Degener Virilio
• Assisted by: Michael Degener (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.07.2006
• EAN: 9780826489555
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-8955-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 191 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Impacts; Impacts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Kulturwissenschaften