Unable bodies

Beginning with the influence of the cruel wars, it raises title words of this article: unable bodies. Paul Virilio ventures the viewpoint that speed is the primary force to shape civilization and is the essence of war. So futurism comes from war and speed. Further he explains that the evolution of history is as the speed of its weapon systems. “Stasis is death”. It shows that all of the important parts like the State-fortress, the power and its laws need to be in an intense circulation for survival.

What he wants to express is a tendency of our world. This tendency is composed of dromology. He uses technology to analyze this issue. Moreover, the technological advances made possible through the militarization of society. At that point, war is considered as a negative factor and technology-a positive one.

The Administration of Fear

Paul Virilio says that the essence of the ecological fear is imprisonment in a world that is too small. Also, the world is too small interindividual activity for the sake of interactivity, instantaneity and simultaneity. He criticizes that is a lack of understanding of authentic human ecology.

The societies have become arrhythmic. An arrhythmic society is a chaotic society and does not allow to share. One of the main reasons is the acceleration. The Surrealists just wanted to highlight the acceleration of reality, the movement beyond common reality through speed. However, people reckon the Surrealist’s model as an ideal way. He counters this admiration of the accelerated speed. He concerns that the hybridization of political regimes would confuse politics and foundations.

From my perspective, the development of technology indeed brings faster speed and higher efficiency. However, the breakthrough of pursuing limited speed reflects the limitation of people. The pursuit of speed brings the surface of the superficial liberation. We could not rely heavily on this.

The Lost Dimension

From past to present, the concept of boundary has changes numerous times. With each change, the boundary-surface has recorded innumerable perceptible and imperceptible transformation. The screen is used as an interface which relies on a visibility devoid of spatial dimensions. And with the interfacing of computer terminals and video monitors, distinctions of here and there no longer mean anything. If the metropolis is still a place, a geographic site, it no longer has anything to do with the classical opposition of city. The suburbs contribute to this dissolution.

Now people are always chasing the latest electronic products. But the man who is pursuing is not in the relationship between the stability of the harmony and the stability of the products. People have explored its various features in the tension. However, the real speed is too fast to fully familiar with the various functions of a new product. Then, some of the existing products have been discard, never to use. This is called “lost”.

The definition of progress seems as a theory in technological fields. So this progress is just a single one. At the same time, it becomes a kind of single progress. The agricultural society causes the backwardness and the industrialization is the progress. People are increasingly being monitored and isolated which means progress.