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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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