Security, Technology and Global Politics : Thinking with Virilio
Mark. Lacy
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2014.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (169 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Reading Virilio; Part I The endo-colonization of society; 1 Security, chronopolitics and the democracy of emotion; 2 Cities of panic and siege psychosis; 3 Beyond war and cinema; Part II Time of the integral accident; 4 Accident and emergency; 5 The University of Disaster; Conclusion: Virilio's negativity; Index. - This book analyses some of the key problems explored in Paul Virilio's theorising on war and security.Paul Virilio has developed a provocative series of writings on how modern societies have shaped the acceleration of military/security technologies - and how technologies of security and acceleration have transformed society, economy and politics. His examination of the connections between geopolitics, war, speed, technology and control are viewed as some of the most challenging and disturbing interventions on the politics of security in the twenty-first century, interventions
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| ISBN | 9780415576048. - 9781138951884
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