Abstract
In his Speed and Politics French left-wing theorist Paul Virilio proposes the concept of dromocracy, which, as a result of war, has deeply changed the geomorphology and people’s sense of time-space in history. Virilio suggests that military logistics as a method of deploying space, which underwent the stage of visual mediation in the Second World War, connects to both the traditional space of topology and the human body in the post-human context, hence becoming an effective logic for power operations. On the one hand, the military topology has a dominating effect on people’s living space and has deeply changed people’s time-space consciousness. On the other, time has become a new subject of politics in the context of “meta-city” resulting in the alienating phenomenon of time-space contraction that is beyond measure. Logistics of perception is the intangible weapon that media technology uses to discipline people. As biotransplantation creates the post-human condition of human-machine integration, “logistics of body” as a new weapon for dromocracy to domesticate people inevitably emerges.
Keywords
Paul Virilio, dromocracy, logistics, space theory
First Page
117
Last Page
125
Recommended Citation
Wu, Shiqi. 2022. "Dromocracy and the Evolution of Space-Time: On Paul Virilio’s Theory of Space of Logistics." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 42, (2): pp.117-125. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol42/iss2/33
