Negative horizon
Subtitle: an essay in dromoscopy
By: Paul Virilio ; translated by Michael Degener.
Contributors: Degener, Michael.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 1950-; Social change.; Technology and civilization.
Description: " ... 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, through the domestication of animals and the building of the first roads, 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-221) and index.