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Title: The Aesthetics of Disappearance <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: PaulVirilio <>Publisher: Semiotext(e) ** Virilio introduces his understanding of "picnolepsy"―the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed. Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception―a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the "vision machine." If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural―and still consummate―theorist of "dromology" (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his understanding of "picnolepsy"―the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject through its very absence: the gaps, glitches, and speed bumps lacing through and defining it. Speed and Politics defined the society of speed; The Aesthetics of Disappearance defines what it feels like to live in the society of speed. "I always write with images," Virilio has claimed, and this statement is nowhere better illustrated than with The Aesthetics of Disappearance . Moving from

Author

Paul Virilio

Publisher

Semiotexte/Smart Art

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781584350743

Subjects

Philosophy, Romance, Humanities