In ‘Speed and Politics’ , Virilo’s war model of the modern city and human technological society is elucidated in his works wherein speed and politics forms the foundation of his rather rational approach. He rightly uses the word ‘dromocratic’ to illustrate structuring of society with respect to warfare and modern media. He attributes this structuring to science of speed and politics. The culture dominated by war defines the city in terms of its creation and spatial politics. The battlefield develops a logistics of perception and images creating conflicts because of the media. The concept of speed shaping the city in my opinion holds true as it asserts the idea of human motives are shaped the way one functions today and functioning clearly is relative to time and space.
In the essay ‘The Lost Dimension’ the idea of contemporary economy in relation to the transparent boundaries of the modern contemporary city and its effects on the advancement in architecture is described. This is done through the comparison of Einstenian Space/time to the actual fourth dimension space and time. Virilo provocatively talks about the overexposed city which is devoid of horizon. I agree to the point where continuity is disrupted in time and just the physical space remains but the idea of remaining in a progressive zone and constantly matching pace with time is only that would make a difference. He then states that the representation of modern city, wherein the urban architecture has to work with the opening of new technological space and time. Beyond the boundaries, making cities porous and reachable let the interactivity persists.
Vrilio’s thought provocation about culture theories moves from warfare to intellectual battlefield where he in ‘The administration of fear’ talks about how fear can overtake our present day situation to futurist idea. In realm of fear we start leaving in the world of derealizaion and get disconnected to reality. Our lives gets synchronized with psychological emotions and perceptions due to which the relation of space and time disrupts.
Theory of accelerated culture taking over the making of city with development and use of technology in relation to time and space is amplified in all the three texts and allows us to comprehend whether speed actually affects globalization and arise the instantaneous nature of information passage.