Negative Horizon

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84706-306-9
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 244 g

Reihe: Continuum Impacts

This book covers the key themes in Virilio's work: speed; society; virtuality; new technology.

Negative Horizon is Paul Virilio's most original and unified exploration of the key themes and ideas running through his thought. 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 - 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, 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. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Virilio, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik

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

Review quotes:

'One of the most original thinkers of our time.' Liberation

'Virilio writes on the edge of physics, philosophy, politics and urbanism.' New Statesman

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Virilio is Director of the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris and author of over 15 books, including Art and Fear and Desert Screen.