Abstract
At a certain moment in his argument in Vitesse et politique, Paul Virilio describes the French Revolution in a particularly idiosyncratic way as a circulatory flow of traffic, thus suggesting that one way of representing the events of the Revolution is to see them as a series of traffic jams and roadway accidents. The general conscription to which the Revolution gave rise in 1793, for example, did not simply enroll a large number of the new citizens of the republic into its military activities, it effectively sent those republican soldiers out onto the roads in defense of the principles of the Revolution:
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