I assume the article Unable Bodies is using some events such war in ancient history as a metaphor to imply there’s another war in our era. Virilio suggests that speed became the main and only agent of process of what happening in human world, here comes a term: dromology. Indeed, unlike the war in ancient Greek or Sparta, however there are wars in other ways continuously happening in our epoch. That reminds me of Sisyphus and his rock. Human just can’t stop it and it becomes worse since the world is actually shrinking.

Furthermore, in The Overexposed City, there are several concepts which elaborate the term dromology and how it becomes the sole agent of process: surface became more and more blur, instead, the surface transformed into an “osmotic membrane”. Under this situation, “thickness without thickness,” “volume without volume,” “location has no location” — a war in a flat world.

The war between exploiters and colonized people is cruel, especially under the wave of globalization. In some point, we are all refugee. “…as the faster we move around the world, the less we appreciate it vastness” (Virilio) Actually our mind, aesthetics, sense of everything are already no longer belong to ourselves since the surface transformed into an “osmotic membrane” (Here in my perspective the surface is not only on the street or in the city but also exist among every individuals.)

Hence, here, there are no longer here and there anymore. The speed of the shrinking process of the world is speeding up. Here and there are both nowhere now for the sake of internet, television and satellites. In the world made of screens, “He’s a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody ” (The Beatles, Nowhere Man, 1965)