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speed

dad joke

rocket

speed limit

trivia

greyhound

falling

raindrop

turkey

exhaling

wing

dragonfly

earth

orbit

rotation

water

knot

one-liner

nonsense question

speed of sound

darkness

wind

dinosaur

direction

thermometer

home

turtle

hare

bicycle

negotiating

Craigslist

space travel

speed of light

snail

getting old

car accident

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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, in its violent approach, distances us from sensible realities... the more rapidly we advance toward the terminus of our movement, the more we regress until speed becomes, in a certain way, a premature infirmity, a literal myopia.

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).

From now on, speed is less useful in terms of getting around easily than in terms of seeing and conceiving more or less clearly.'

is increasingly diminishing physical movement. The higher the speed of technology the more real space gives way to real time.

Given the meaning of the polar moment of inertia in physics, that is, the force required to change the axis of movement of a spinning object, the metaphor seems fitting to discuss the way in which technology driven by speed is increasingly diminishing physical movement just like with a spinning disk, Virilio argues that the higher the speed of technology the more difficult movement becomes in contemporary society. Real space gives way to real time. All becomes both quicker and smaller.'

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, for Virilio, has had a largely military gestation. The way in which mass communication has speeded up at the same time has meant, in his view, that old-fashioned industrial war has given way to the information bomb or information war' (NET)

is no longer a means but a milieu, a substance saturating the world into which more and more action is transferred.

speed is no longer a means but a miieu... one may say that speed is a sort of ethel substance that saturates the world and into which more and more action is transfered, acquiring (Bauman 2002: 13)

is not a mode of production but a factor of production that has acquired sovereignty over the mode in the form of velocity.

for Virilio, speed is not a mode of production but a factor of production that has acquired sovereignty over the mode in the form of velocity: 'The transportation revolution,' Virilio (NH 118) maintains, 'also sets off the industrialization of the traditional enterprise of images', which 'suddenly becomes a cinematic projection of reality, the fabrication of the world, of a world of artificial images, a montage of dromoscopic sequences where the optic of mobile illusion renews optical illusion.'

is the exhaustion of the world. It is aging and wearing it out, and leading us back to confinement, enclosure, incarceration, and exclusion.

So we could say that speed is aging the world. Speed is wearing out the world. Speed is the exhaustion of the world. We are coming back to confinement. We are coming back to enclosure and incarceration. And also exclusion. Whence the escape velocity which offers the way out, but a way out to nothing. To emptiness and the black hole. There is no light outside the atmosphere.

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