Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McCaffrey, Enda

Titel

The Squared Horizon: Arms, Divinity, Affect

Ist Teil von

• Cultural politics (Biggleswade, England), 2015-07, Vol.11 (2), p.201

Ort / Verlag

Thousand Oaks: Duke University Press, NC & IL

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Telecommunicative technologies are rapidly changing how we see and perceive the present and the past. For decades Paul Virilio has been at the forefront of debates on the impact of this technology on real-time consciousness and space-time consciousness and more generally on the pervasive nature of this technology across many aspects of our daily lives. Technological innovation has long been seen as a signifier of national pride and supremacy. Consider the role played by the panzer tank in the German Nazi Party's strategy of territorial expansionism (lebensraum); the race between the US and the Soviet Union to put the first person in space and on the moon; and lest they forget, the development of nuclear weapons that paradoxically established years of cold war between the Soviet Union and the West, the end of which Virilio pinpoints as the beginning of the new electromagnetic warfare we see played out on screens today.