Polar Inertia - Rilegato

Virilio, Paul

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0761958029 ISBN 13: 9780761958024

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Ltd, 1999

Riassunto

Examining how the `here and now' of space, territory, the body, are being redefined by new technologies and how this undoes simplistic versions of the globalization thesis, Paul Virilio demonstrates how technology has made inertia the defining condition of modernity. An instantaneous present has replaced space and the sovereignty of territory; everything happens without the need to go anywhere. This book will be a key reference for students and scholars of the latest thinking in social theory.

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Recensione:

`If you've ever felt like we're going nowhere fast, and you'd like to know why - preferably sometime before you die - read this book' - James Der Derian, Brown University and Univeristy of Massachusetts, Amherst

`One of the most Original thinkers of our time' - Lib[ac]eration

`Virilio explores the space-time continuum of new media with a relentless, sceptical gaze. This volume is essential reading for those who would follow his profound examination of the body's fate in the landscape of contemporary information machines' - Professor Mark Poster, University of California

L'autore:

Paul Virilio is President Ecoloe Speciale d'Architecture, and author of Open Sky (verao); Art of the Motor (BFI); War and Cinema (Verso), amongst others.

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• Editore: Sage Pubns Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0761958029
• ISBN 13: 9780761958024
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 103