Speed (n.) is a premature infirmity, a literal myopia (short sightedness) in that it distances us from sensible realities... the more rapidly we advance toward the terminus of our movement, the more we regress.
Speed (n.) is, from now on, less useful in terms of getting around easily physically than in terms of seeing and conceiving more or less clearly (e.g., the internet).
Speed (n.) is increasingly diminishing physical movement. The higher the speed of technology the more real space gives way to real time.
Speed (n.) is largely military in origin. The way in which mass communication has speeded up at the same time has meant that old-fashioned industrial war has given way to the information bomb or information war.
Speed (n.) is not a mode of production but a factor of production that has acquired sovereignty over the mode in the form of velocity.
Speed (n.) is the exhaustion of the world. It is aging and wearing it out, and leading us back to confinement, enclosure, incarceration, and exclusion.
Speed (n.) is the primary force shaping society (not class or wealth). Western man has only appeared superior and dominant because he is more rapid.
Speed (n.) is an environment or a milieu.
Speed (n.) is the historical determinate whose acceleration in modern society has caused the traditional political structures to implode.
Speed (n.) is not that which solely permits us to move more easily, rather it permits us to see, to hear, to perceive and thus to conceive more intensively the present world.
Speed (n.) is not a thematic concern, but a structuring principle of the manner in which we experience the space of the world.
Speed (n.) is not itself a phenomenon but rather a relation between phenomena.
Speed (n.) is a form of mediation between things as they appear in any field of vision.
Speed (n.) is both the medium in which collective experience unfolds and a key motor or driving force which underpins the historical dynamic of that experience.
Speed (n.) is a destiny at the same time as being a destination.
Speed (n.) is the historical determinate, not technology. The speed of train travel exceeds that of horse-drawn locomotion, the airplane that of the train.
Speed (n.) is the historical driver, not technology — there was no industrial revolution, but only a dromocratic revolution; there is no democracy, only dromocracy.
Speed (n.) lights up the universe of perceptible and measurable phenomena. Light is but the the unique revealer of sensible appearances.
Speed (n.) is responsible for the slow miniaturisation of our terrestrial habitat's proportions and an insidious form of the desertification of the world.