By Paul Virilio
To learn those 5 essays of 1983 is to start to return to phrases with the theoretical cataclysm of the current. In misplaced measurement, Paul Virilio considers the displacement of the concept that of dimensional area via Einsteinian space/time because it is expounded to the obvious barriers of the postmodern urban and modern economic system. Virilio imagines a coming global of interactive, informational networks delivering a prison-house of illusionary transcendence. He photos international terrorism (perpetrated via and opposed to technological states) filling up the surreal void of an deserted actual. In a multidisciplinary excavation of latest physics, structure, esthetic conception, and sociology, Virilio lines the dystopic team spirit of the modern Western obstacle with lightning prescience and readability.
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9 Is this a point ofdeparture or a point of suspension? To answer this, let us return to S chatzman, whose theory of the 44 The Morphological Irruption expanding universe is likewise a theory of its infinite con traction: "This rests on the physical fact of a homogeneous, isotropic universe in which all the parts are attracted to each other according to Newton's Law, and necessarily find them selves either in a state of expansion or contraction. " This dromological vision of the universe promotes the exclusive importance of the Newtonian cosmology, the central role of the constant of gravity, as well as the centrality of the constant of the speed oflight, the two essential constants along with that of Max Planck - ofcurrent physics.
At the furthest reaches of teleology and topology, or networks and fluxes, there now exists- though in a latent and yet real manner - a tele-topology ofform-images , which is nothing more than the superficial and momentary expres sion of a twisting, a distortion or warping of vector-velocity, be it of transport or transmission. The end of the demarcation of surfaces and volumes, as of all physical extensions, in favor of the instantaneous commutation of the interface, goes hand-in-hand with the uncertainty principle, and the recently renewed affirmation of the non-separability of elementary particles in the events of quantum mechanics.
This history then passes from Huyghens' 1673 invention of the mono-cylindrical motor ( in which the cannon is described as the "first internal combustion engine ever," the first automo bile media), down through the already mentioned "vacuum tube," and then to Michelson's experiments and on to the electron cannon, to the cathode tube, to contemporary laser technology with the present use of the optic cavity of the coherent ray oflight, or the optic-fiber cable, allowing centers oftelecommunication to advance from analogic commutation to temporal commutation.