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"History progresses at the speed of its weapons systems."--Speed and Politics (1977) by Paul Virilio


"In short, the fortresses of the Middle Ages replaced primitive welcomes and sacred ancient hospitality with permanent social rejection as the primary necessity for the workings of the war machine."--Speed and Politics (1977) by Paul Virilio


"I wouldn't want to be a survivor."-- Jean Mermoz


"they called to the streets, and the streets killed them."--Weber on Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

German:

"Liebknecht , der zweifellos ein ehrlicher Mann war , hat zum Kampf der Straße aufgerufen"


"The attack changed with the invention of machines to destroy."--Errard, known as Jean Errard de Bar-le-Duc


"The creature bound by water is a creature in vertigo. It dies at each instant; something of its substance is constantly collapsing."--Water and Dreams (1942) by Gaston Bachelard


Hoorah! No more contact
with the vile earth!

-- Marinetti, 1905


"Risk-but in comfort!"-- Marshal Goering


"Yours is not to reason why!"-- Frederick the Second to his soldiers


"You can have a proletarian insurrection on 'the condition that the others hold their fire. If they dump two tank battalions on you, the proletarian revolution is as good as nothing."-- Andre Malraux, Interviews


"Security cannot be divided."-- Michel Poniatowski, March 4, 1976


"Speed is the essence of war."-- Sun Tzu


"Man is the passenger of woman, not only at birth but also in their sexual relations ... Paraphrasing Samuel Butler, we could say that the female is the means the male has found to reproduce himself, in other words to come into the world. In this sense, woman is the species' first means of transport, its very first vehicle. The second would be the mounting and coupling 'of dissimilar bodies fitted out for migration, the voyage in common." Paul Virilio, Metempsychose du passager, May 1977.

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Speed and Politics (1977) is a book by Paul Virilio.

On the cover is Cover a Map of Paris published in 1847 depicting Haussman's plan to transform Paris into "the capital of capitals." In red are the networks of new streets and boulevards and in green are the parks.

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Speed and Politics (1986; first published in France in 1977) is the matrix of Virilio's entire work. Building on the works of Morand, Marinetti, and McLuhan, Virilio presents a vision more radically political than that of any of his French contemporaries: speed as the engine of destruction. It presents a topological account of the entire history of humanity, honing in on the technological advances made possible through the militarization of society. Parallel to Heidegger’s vision of technology, Virilio sees speed—not class or wealth—as the primary force shaping civilization. In this ‘technical vitalism,’ multiple projectile—inert fortresses and bunkers, the ‘metabolic bodies’ of soldiers, transport vessels, and now information and computer technology—mutually prosthetize each other in a permanent assault on the world and, through it, on human nature. Written at a lightning-fast pace, Virilio’s landmark book is an split-second, overwhelming look at how humanity’s motivity has shaped the way we function today, as well as a view into what might come of it.

Table of contents

Contents Introduction: Logistics of Habitable Circulation 7 PART 1. THE DROMOCRATIC REVOLUTION 27 1. From Street Fight to State Right 29 2. From Highway Right to State Right 49 PART 2. DROMOLOGICAL PROGRESS 59 1. From Space Right to State Right 61 2. Practical War 73 PART 3. DROMOCRATIC SOCIETY 81 1. Unable Bodies 83 2. The Boarding of Metabolic Vehicles 96 3. The End of the Proletariat 115 4. The Consumption of Security 136 PART 4. THE STATE OF EMERGENCY 147 Notes 169

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