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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... speed ; if he was too slow , he died literally disintegrated point blank by the firing end . . . Everything in this new warfare becomes a question of time won by man over the fatal projectiles toward which his path throws him . Speed is ...
... speed ; if he was too slow , he died literally disintegrated point blank by the firing end . . . Everything in this new warfare becomes a question of time won by man over the fatal projectiles toward which his path throws him . Speed is ...
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... Speed is the hope of the West ; it is speed that supports the armies ' morale . What " makes war convenient " is transportation , and the armored car , able to go over every kind of terrain , erases the obstacles . With it , earth no ...
... Speed is the hope of the West ; it is speed that supports the armies ' morale . What " makes war convenient " is transportation , and the armored car , able to go over every kind of terrain , erases the obstacles . With it , earth no ...
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... speed , that of weapons would not be so fearsome . In the current context , to disarm would thus mean first and foremost to decelerate , to defuse the race toward the end . Any treaty that does not limit the speed of this race ( the speed ...
... speed , that of weapons would not be so fearsome . In the current context , to disarm would thus mean first and foremost to decelerate , to defuse the race toward the end . Any treaty that does not limit the speed of this race ( the speed ...
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From Space Right to State Right | 37 |
Practical War | 50 |
Unable Bodies | 61 |
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