The Aesthetics of Disappearance (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
By Paul Virilio.
Description
Virilio introduces his understanding of "picnolepsy"―the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed.Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception―a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the "vision machine." If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural―and still consummate―theorist of "dromology" (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his unders...
ISBN(s)
9781584350743
