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.
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'Virilio writes on the edge of physics, philosophy, politics and urbanism.' New Statesman
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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.
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If you enjoyed the movie "Crash," but didn't feel like you understood the message, here is a wonderful theoretical explanation for you. Negative Horizons examines the violence of speed. I would say that it's heavy theory that reads like a thriller. It was absolutely engaging and terrifying to read, especially while taking a airplane home from DC on a dark and stormy night.
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- Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by John Armitage on page 222, page 227, and Back Matter
- The Virilio Reader (Blackwell Readers) by James Der Derian in Front Matter, and page 198
- Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader by Arthur Kroker on page 134
- The Original Accident by Paul Virilio in Back Matter
- The Original Accident by Paul Virilio in Back Matter
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