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

Virilio, Paul; Degener, Michael

ISBN 10: 1847063063 / ISBN 13: 9781847063069

Verlag: Continuum, 2008

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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Paul Virilio (1932-2018) was one of our foremost cultural critics. Architect and urban planner and former director of the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris, he has written widely on film, architecture, art, war and technology.

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Titel: Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy (...
Verlag: Continuum
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good