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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.
Table of Contents
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
| Published | 02 Jun 2008 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781847063069 |
| Imprint | Continuum |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Series | Continuum Impacts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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