Tag Archives: Time-space compression

Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics

 
The masses are not a population, a society, but the multitude of passers-by. The revolutionary contingent attains its deal form not in the place of production, but in the street, where for a moment it stops being a cog in the technical machine and itself becomes a motor (machine of attack), in other words [...]

Posted in Books | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity

A few notes from David Harvey’s excellent work The Condition of Postmodernity. In the following, I am mostly interested in his concept of time-space compression and the cultural and aesthetic responses to it.

Posted in Theory | Also tagged , , , | Leave a comment