The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-Eject - Rilegato

Virilio, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0745648630 ISBN 13: 9780745648637

Casa editrice: Polity Pr, 2010

Riassunto

With around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð bywars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins TheFuturism of the Instant by looking at the future of humansettlement and migration through the evolution of the city. What hefinds is an accelerating exodus from the city as we have known it,an exodus that reverses the desertion of the countryside for thecity in the past. This exodus creates a circulating city oftransients on the move that will remove us further and further fromour native lands en route to the ultimate exile, beyond planetEarth itself Ð something the world's mad scientists havealready been planning for some time.

Exploring the shifts in scale involved in such population flowsand the fraught and complex relationship between sedentarysettlement and globalization, Virilio considers what the resultantloss of identity might mean, not only in terms of the exhaustion ofbiodiversity, but also in terms of the catastrophic elimination oftemporal diversity, with the compression and fragmentation of timeenabled by the nanotechnologies in an ever increasing accelerationof reality. This previously unimaginable prospect is brought closerby the accident of an instant that wipes out all distinctionbetween past, present and future within the black hole ofglobalized interconnectivity.

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Recensione

"One of the most verbally exuberant of modern philosophers."
The Guardian
 
"Paul Virilio has long been one of the most fascinating and provocative thinkers of our contemporary moment."
Douglas Kellner, UCLA
 
"If Walter Benjamin had one true intellectual descendant who extended his inquiries into the second half of the twentieth century, this must be Paul Virilio."
Lev Manovich, author of The New Media

L'autore

Paul Virilio is a leading cultural theorist and is well known for his writings on technology, war, speed and power. His many books include War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception, The Original Accident and The
University of Disaster.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Polity Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0745648630
• ISBN 13: 9780745648637
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 109