Abstract
According to Virilio, changes in society (hence globalization as well) can be monitored from the perspective of speed. From this point of view, it is also possible to explain the development of the society as a dromocratic development. In this case, we find that during a certain recent historical interval there was a fundamental event, which resulted in unusual acceleration in all areas of the society, and within the two centuries, the speed of some human activities reached its limit, the speed of light – for the first time in the history. Virilio thinks that in reality, there is no industrial revolution, but only dromocratic-speed revolution, there is any democracy, but dromocracy. Which means that by using terms such as the “industrial revolution”, “technological progress”, or globalization of modern thinking collectively refers only to the various striking phenomena, but the essential, less prominent issue eludesnamely, speeds. What characterizes the current form of globalization is an unstable mixture of fast information and slow movements, fast technology and slow society of technocratic liberalism. Besides monetary wealth standard, there is a globalized standard of the speed limit.
Highlights
To say today that speed is obsolete is an untruth as obvious as that which consists in praising slowness [1]
The sphere of culture, it is “one of the most immediately perceived and experienced forms of globalization” [9], is surprisingly often omitted in these debates, which leads to the fact that the meaning of the term globalization is reduced to just the processes of political and economic changes
The essence of the modern era can be described using the concepts of wealth and speed
Summary
To say today that speed is obsolete is an untruth as obvious as that which consists in praising slowness [1]. Most speed phenomena seem reasonable at first glance and usually it is the case This applies to those devices and equipment that we use every day from cars and Velcro over Fast Food and email, to our computer and particle accelerators. Speed treats vision like its basic element; with acceleration, to travel is like filming, not so much producing images as new mnemonic traces, unlikely, supernatural. In such a context death it can no longer be felt as mortal; it becomes, as in William Burroughs, a simple technical accident, the final separation of the sound from the picture track [1]. What is given to see is due to the phenomena of acceleration and deceleration in every respect identifiable with intensities of light [1]
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