Greek culture

is founded not on commerce and the urge for wealth, but on war and the capacity for propulsion.

Virilio argues that the political economy of the Greek city-state cannot be characterized under the political economy of wealth. For Virilio, a simple understanding of the management of the economy of the state will not suffice. On the contrary, the histories of socio-political institutions such as the military–industrial complex and artistic movements like Futurism demon- strate that war and the ‘capacity for propulsion’, rather than commerce and the urge for wealth, were the foundations of Greek culture.

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greek culture