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Synopsis
On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier particles.
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Review
Returning to themes from previous books such as The Future of the Instant, Paul Virilio’s indispensable new work, The Great Accelerator, considers history, privacy, and, especially, speedup. If our accelerated postmodern culture is a closed circuit, Virilio asks, are not speed and light reconfigured as ‘dromology’ and traditional philosophy as too ‘slow’? Thought-provoking and contentious, The Great Accelerator will be a widely discussed book.
John Armitage, Northumbria University
Paul Virilio’s The Great Accelerator continues his interrogations of speed and time forecasting the end of history, time and knowledge as we once knew them. Futuristic to the zero point, Virilio dazzles, illuminates and provokes as we speed through his latest vision of what is to come and what’s happening now.
Douglas Kellner, UCLA, author of Cinema Wars and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy
About the Author
Paul Virilio is former Director of the Ecole speciale d'architecture in Paris.
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- PublisherPolity
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0745653898
- ISBN 13 9780745653891
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages104
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