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To read these five essays of 1983 is to begin to come to terms with the theoretical cataclysm of the present. In Lost Dimension, Paul Virilio considers the displacement of the concept of dimensional space by Einsteinian space/time as it is related to the transparent boundaries of the postmodern city and contemporary economy. Virilio imagines a coming world of interactive, informational networks offering a prison-house of illusionary transcendence. He pictures global terrorism (perpetrated by and against technological states) filling up the surreal void of an abandoned real. In a multidisciplinary excavation of contemporary physics, architecture, esthetic theory, and sociology, Virilio traces the dystopic unity of the contemporary Western predicament with lightning prescience and clarity.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Lost Dimension
• Author: Virilio
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781584351177
• ISBN: 1584351179
• ID: 01232471
• Publisher: Autonomedia
• Weight: 310 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 154 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. November 2012

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