Paul Virilio: The Original Accident

Cover: 9780745636146 | The Original Accident | Paul Virilio | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2007

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Beschreibung

The future once promised the certainty of a better life for all but now it is full of uncertainty, danger and fear. Our lives are surrounded by the threats, imaginary or real, posed by terrorist outrages, natural catastrophes and disasters of all kinds. The future is overshadowed by the nightmare of an outmoded humanity overwhelmed by a catastrophe of its own making, a kind of catastrophic grand finale that would mirror the original accident - the Big Bang - that some scientists believe created the universe.

A biting meditation on Progress technoscientific progress, at any cost and without any limits this book defines the ways in which postindustrial science has merged with out-and-out hyperterrorism to threaten the foundations of Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian civilization, and the future of the planet with them, through innovation of mass catastrophes that are part and parcel of its panoply of inventions.

Urging us to face up to the consequences of our brave-new-world technologies, Virilio calls for the creation of a Museum of the Accident to fight our habituation to horror and violence, and our daily overexposure to terror, in the name, not of some preventive war, but of a preventive intelligence that would help us deal with both natural and artificial disasters.

Über den Autor

Paul Virilio, The European Graduate School

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE

Caution

The Invention of Accidents

The Accident Argument

The Accident Museum

The Future of the Accident

The Expectation Horizon

Unknown Quantity

PART TWO

Public Emotion

The Original Accident

The Dromosphere

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780745636146
ISBN-10:	0745636144
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Virilio, Paul
Übersetzung:	Rose, Julie
Hersteller:	Polity Press
Maße:	216 x 139 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Paul Virilio
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.02.2007
Gewicht:	0,173 kg

Artikel-ID: 102170674