| Description |
245 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Core cultural concepts.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction - John Armitage -- From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond - John Armitage -- An Interview with Paul Virilio -- ̀Indirect Light' Extracted from /f003Polar Inertia - Paul Virilio -- Virilio and Architecture - Neil Leach -- Paul Virilio's Bunker Theorizing - Mike Gane -- Virilio, War and Technology - Douglas Kellner -- Some Critical Reflections -- Virilio and New Media - Sean Cubitt -- Blinded by the (Speed of) Light - Scott McQuire -- The Tendency, the Accident and the Untimely - Patrick Crogan -- Paul Virilio's Engagement with the Future -- Virilio, Stelarc and ̀Terminal' Technoculture - Nicholas Zurbrugg -- The Passenger - Verena Andermatt Conley -- Paul Virilio and Feminism -- The Conceptual Cosmology of Paul Virilio - James Der Derian -- Paul Virilio - John Armitage -- A Select Bibliography |
| Summary |
"Self-professed 'urbanist', political thinker, and 'critic of the art of technology', Paul Virilio is one of the most significant and stimulating French cultural theorists writing today. Hailed as the 'archaeologist of the future' and the inventor of the concept of 'dromology', or the 'science' of speed, Virilio believes that the logic of ever increasing acceleration lies at the heart of the organization and transformation of the contemporary world. His arguments regarding the human consequences of dromology in the form of the 'disappearance' of geographical space, time, matter, movement, and aesthetics are currently causing fierce debate." "But who is Paul Virilio? What is the significance of dromology and disappearance? What are the principal cultural themes of his important writings? |
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This book incorporates a variety of studies addressing these questions, an interview with Virilio, a recently translated example of his work, and a select bibliography of his writings. It is the first book to afford a properly critical evaluation of Virilio's cultural theory. The commissioned contributions by leading cultural and social theorists examine Virilio's work from his early speculations on military and urban space to his current writings on dromology, politics, new communications technologies, disappearance, and the fallout from 'the information bomb'." "Paul Virilio is required reading for all fellow archaeologists of the future, 'dromologists', and other students of critical cultural and social theory."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"Paul Virilio is simultaneously published as volume 16, numbers 5-6 of Theory, culture & society"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Virilio, Paul -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Virilio, Paul, 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Virilio, Paul.
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Culture -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Armitage, John, 1956-
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| LC no. |
2001269856 |
| ISBN |
0761959017 |
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0761959025 (paperback) |
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