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Find more info., search and price compare for Polar Inertia (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Paul Virilio Binding: Paperback, 1 edition, 112 pages Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd Weight: 0.26 pound Dimension: H: 0.47 x L: 9.06 x W: 6.14 inches ISBN 10: 0761958037 ISBN 13: 9780761958031 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: Polar Inertia examines how the here and now' of space, territory and the body, are being redefined by new technologies and shows how this redefinition undoes simplistic versions of the globalization thesis. In a typically pyrotechnic overview that considers Venetian gondolas and NASA technology, the Lumi gr ere cinema and particle accelerators Virilio shows how technology has made inertia the defining condition of modernity. The principal argument of Polar Inertia is that the real time of action at a distance' telecommunication has replaced the real space of immediate action. An instantaneous present has been substituted for space and the sovereignty of territory; everything happens without the need to go anywhere. Illustrated with discussion of optics, vision machines', the body and its vehicles, surveillance and control, this book will be a key reference for students and scholars of the latest thinking in social theory. |
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