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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new nuclear power . Without our realizing it , the nuclear weapon logically modified the political constitution of the States in the world . As one lawyer put it , “ We must recognize that the nuclear weapon has shown itself to be a ...
new nuclear power . Without our realizing it , the nuclear weapon logically modified the political constitution of the States in the world . As one lawyer put it , “ We must recognize that the nuclear weapon has shown itself to be a ...
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There remains only a passive defense that consists less in reinforcing itself against the megaton powers of nuclear weapons than in a series of constant , unpredictable , aberrant movements , movements which are thus strategically ...
There remains only a passive defense that consists less in reinforcing itself against the megaton powers of nuclear weapons than in a series of constant , unpredictable , aberrant movements , movements which are thus strategically ...
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This logic of practical war , in which the operating costs of the ( aerial ) vector automatically entail the heightening of its destructive capability because of the requirements of transporting a tactical nuclear weapon , is not ...
This logic of practical war , in which the operating costs of the ( aerial ) vector automatically entail the heightening of its destructive capability because of the requirements of transporting a tactical nuclear weapon , is not ...
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From Space Right to State Right | 37 |
Practical War | 50 |
Unable Bodies | 61 |
Copyright | |
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