Polar Inertia (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) - Softcover

Virilio, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761958037 ISBN 13: 9780761958031

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999

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Book by Virilio Paul

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Críticas:

`If you've ever felt like we're going nowhere fast, and you'd like to know why - preferably sometime before you die - read this book' - James Der Derian, Brown University and Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amherst

`One of the most Original thinkers of our time' - Lib[ac]eration

`Virilio explores the space-time continuum of new media with a relentless, sceptical gaze. This volume is essential reading for those who would follow his profound examination of the body's fate in the landscape of contemporary information machines' - Professor Mark Poster, University of California

Reseña del editor:

'If you've ever felt like we're going nowhere fast, and you'd like to know why - preferably sometime before you die - read this book' - James Der Derian, Brown University and UMASS/Amherst

Examining how the 'here and now' of space, territory, the body, are being redefined by new technologies and how this undoes simplistic versions of the globalization thesis, Paul Virilio demonstrates how technology has made inertia the defining condition of modernity.

An instantaneous present has replaced space and the sovereignty of territory; everything happens without the need to go anywhere.

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• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0761958037
• ISBN 13: 9780761958031
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 114