Polar Inertia
by Paul Virilio
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Paul Virilio shows how technology has made inertia the defining condition of modernity. He argues that the real time of action at a distance through telecommunication has replaced the real space of immediate action.Tags
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Paul Virilio is a world-renowned cultural critic and Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School, Switzerland. He is also a philosopher, architect, urban planner and the former director of the cole Spciale d'Architecture in Paris, France.
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