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DROMOLOGY, POLITICS AND LOGISTICS OF PERCEPTION
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This paper critically analyses the theory of a French cultural critic, city planner and philosopher Paul Virilio. Virilio's texts deal with the impact of speed on the contemporary world. The development of means of transport used by people for the purpose of movement – from horse carts, railways and cars to planes, culminated by the arrival of digitalized audio visual hypertext, the last “vehicle” that replaces its drivers' physical movement by total inertia. How does that historical succession starting with metabolic vehicles such as a horse, ships, railways, cars planes to the latest ways of tele-transfer, tele-presence and audio visual vehicles, influence our present-day concept of the world? What are the social, cultural and political consequences resulting from continuous acceleration of social processes, from inertia of absolute speed? Can increasing the speed of our technologies lead up to the irreversible immobilization of social players? Does our effort to represent the reality depend on the kind of media and on speed? The study analyses Virilio's texts and it presents the interpretation of the main propositions of his dromology.
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