WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/524559

Negative Horizon

" ... 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.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • ""Dans cet essai, l'auteur de "Vitesse et politique" s'attache à montrer les effets culturels de l'accélération. Pour lui, la vitesse n'est pas seulement la face cachée de la richesse, l'origine d'une hiérarchie inaperçue, mais encore un milieu inconnu dont la découverte reste à faire, la "dromosphère", l'espace vitesse."
  • "Cultuurfilosofisch essay over snelheid als sleutelbegrip voor de westerse moderne samenleving."
  • "" ... 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."
  • "" ... 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."@en
  • "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."@en

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Electronic resource"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Der negative Horizont : Bewegung - Geschwindigkeit - Beschleunigung"
  • "Der negative Horizont : Bewegung, Geschwindigkeit, Beschleunigung"
  • "Negative Horizon"@en
  • "L'horizon négatif : essai de dromoscopie"
  • "Negative horizon : toward a dromoscopy"
  • "L'horizon negatif"
  • "Negative horizon"
  • "Het horizon-negatief : essay over dromoscopie"
  • "L' horizon négatif : essai de dromoscopie"
  • "Negative horizon an essay in dromoscopy"@en
  • "Negative horizon an essay in dromoscopy"
  • "L'Horizon négatif : essai de dromoscopie"
  • "Negative horizon : an essay in dromoscopy"

workExample