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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... reach free enterprise , their socialization , but to reach their own vehicular power , their maximum dynamic efficiency . This is the “ futility ” of wealth that disappeared in the essence of dromological progress . Western man has ...
... reach free enterprise , their socialization , but to reach their own vehicular power , their maximum dynamic efficiency . This is the “ futility ” of wealth that disappeared in the essence of dromological progress . Western man has ...
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... reach the speed of light with laser weapons . If , as Lenin claimed , " strategy means choosing which points we apply force to , " we must admit that these " points , " today , are no longer geostrategic strongpoints , since from any ...
... reach the speed of light with laser weapons . If , as Lenin claimed , " strategy means choosing which points we apply force to , " we must admit that these " points , " today , are no longer geostrategic strongpoints , since from any ...
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... reach , the higher speed of these means would already have reduced the time of decision about their use to nothing . Just as in 1972 , in Moscow , the partners in this game abandoned plans for an anti - missile missile defense , so five ...
... reach , the higher speed of these means would already have reduced the time of decision about their use to nothing . Just as in 1972 , in Moscow , the partners in this game abandoned plans for an anti - missile missile defense , so five ...
Contents
From Space Right to State Right | 37 |
Practical War | 50 |
Unable Bodies | 61 |
Copyright | |
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