Speed and Politics: An Essay on DromologyWith this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution. |
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... century notes its technical superiority : " Out of 300 sieges conducted by the Europeans since the beginning of this century , there have only been about ten in which the fortification fell first . " The military thus seems dependent on ...
... century notes its technical superiority : " Out of 300 sieges conducted by the Europeans since the beginning of this century , there have only been about ten in which the fortification fell first . " The military thus seems dependent on ...
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... century , a vogue that in the nineteenth century would become a veritable cult in philosophy and fiction . The engineer is celebrated as the " priest of civilization " ( Saint - Simon ) , a perverted image we will come back to , but ...
... century , a vogue that in the nineteenth century would become a veritable cult in philosophy and fiction . The engineer is celebrated as the " priest of civilization " ( Saint - Simon ) , a perverted image we will come back to , but ...
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... century and gave rise to important works only in the nineteenth . He cites the example of a group of erudites , mostly of the legal profession , who , toward the middle of the sixteenth century , proposed ( in the words of one of them ...
... century and gave rise to important works only in the nineteenth . He cites the example of a group of erudites , mostly of the legal profession , who , toward the middle of the sixteenth century , proposed ( in the words of one of them ...
Contents
From Space Right to State Right | 37 |
Practical War | 50 |
Unable Bodies | 61 |
Copyright | |
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