Speed and Politics

is a book that offers a credible ‘war model’ of the growth of the modern city and the evolution of human culture. where the fortified city of the feudal period was a motionless and generally unassailable ‘war machine’ coupled to an attempt to modulate the circulation and momentum of the movements of the urban masses.

Speed and Politics: An Essay on Dromology (1986), for example, Virilio offers a credible ‘war model’ of the growth of the modern city and the evolution of human culture. Indeed, according to Virilio, the fortified city of the feudal period was a motionless and generally unassailable ‘war machine’ coupled to an attempt to modulate the circulation and momentum of the movements of the urban masses. Hence, the fortified city was a political space of habitable inertia, the political configuration and the physical underpinning of the feudal era.

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speed and politics