Negative Horizon

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This book covers the key themes in Virilios work: speed; society; virtuality; new technology. Negative Horizon" is Paul Virilios most original & unified exploration of the key themes & ideas running through his thought. Provocative & forceful it sets out Virilios theory of dromoscopy: a means of apprehending speed & its pivotal
- & potentially destructive
- role in contemporary global society. Applying this theory to Western political & military history Virilio exposes a compulsion to accelerate & 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 & movement has consistently been eroded & the physical world adapted in order to satisfy the urge to move further & faster. In exposing what he believes to be the consequences of this constant acceleration for human sensory perception & ultimately global democracy Virilio offers a vision of history & politics as disturbing as it is original. These books are seminal works of the finest minds in Western thought including Adorno Badiou Derrida Heidegger & Larkin. They are works of such power that they changed the cultural mind when they were written & continue to resonate today
- landmark texts in the fields of philosophy literature popular culture politics & theology
- strikingly designed accessibly priced."