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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Clausewitz , 1806 In every revolution there is the paradoxical presence of circulation . ... The revolutionary contingent attains its ideal form not in the place of production , but in the street , where for a moment it stops being a ...
Clausewitz , 1806 In every revolution there is the paradoxical presence of circulation . ... The revolutionary contingent attains its ideal form not in the place of production , but in the street , where for a moment it stops being a ...
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The discourse propagated by revolutionary propaganda is like the bourgeois citadel's old religious discourse . It distances and dissuades the mobile masses ; it designates a new revolutionary State as not being here in the city , in the ...
The discourse propagated by revolutionary propaganda is like the bourgeois citadel's old religious discourse . It distances and dissuades the mobile masses ; it designates a new revolutionary State as not being here in the city , in the ...
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Revolution is no more than a rerouting of the old social assault . Carnot , as a good member of the ... much ... songs were a powerful revolutionary means , the ' Marsellaise ' electrified the populace ... " The mathematician Carnot and ...
Revolution is no more than a rerouting of the old social assault . Carnot , as a good member of the ... much ... songs were a powerful revolutionary means , the ' Marsellaise ' electrified the populace ... " The mathematician Carnot and ...
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From Space Right to State Right | 37 |
Practical War | 50 |
Unable Bodies | 61 |
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