Negative Horizon (Continuum Impacts)

by Paul Virilio and Michael Degener

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Negative Horizon is Paul Virilio's most original and unified exploration of the key themes and ideas running through his work and thought. Provocatively and forcefully written, 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...Read more
  • ISBN10 6612014121
  • ISBN13 9786612014123
  • Publish Date 27 July 2006 (first published 1 March 2005)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 9 March 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 240
  • Language English