Please can you elaborate so I can better understand? I think I understand.
But this is like the movement image & time image of Deleuze on Cinema which splits (haha) the century pre and post ww2. Found this yesterday, interrupted temporality (1947) but the ending is 1950s already:
He's saying science was completely absorbed by the military-industrial complex after the invention of the atomic bomb and that no political philosophy arose to really challenge it, so it went into overdrive.
When you have a stoned thought, you're unlikely to pursue it with any sort of rigour or perhaps even remember it. A philosopher has the stoned thought then works on it.
Yes but do they get anywhere?
i dont think thoughts can be worked on. they are immaculate at conception.
I meant the source of the excerpt.
I said where it was from. It's from The Administration of Fear.
he wasnt joking when he said he doesnt read anything was he
I only know of Bergsonian time through secondary sources so keep that in mind but from what I understand its essentially the lived experience of time as a virtual pool that we jump back into at any point (rather than rewinding the tape linearly) and also serves to 'activate' certain moments in the present that it rings harmoniously with.
Yeah, the other example Virilio uses is the speed at which trades are being done on the stock market via computers.
I wanted to make a list of modern phenomena/tech that uses the language of speed but I cant think of anything beyond 'instant messaging'
The way I currently think of it is like a tank full of fish where the fish are events and you can just grab whichever one you want.
You get people talking about laptop boot times like they're talking about a car going from 0 - 60.