The Great Accelerator

Returning to themes from previous books such as The Future of the Instant, Paul Virilio’s indispensable new work, The Great Accelerator, considers history, privacy, and, especially, speedup. If our accelerated postmodern culture is a closed circuit, Virilio asks, are not speed and light reconfigured as ‘dromology’ and traditional philosophy as too ‘slow’? Thought-provoking and contentious, The Great Accelerator will be a widely discussed book.
John Armitage, Northumbria University

Paul Virilio’s The Great Accelerator continues his interrogations of speed and time forecasting the end of history, time and knowledge as we once knew them. Futuristic to the zero point, Virilio dazzles, illuminates and provokes as we speed through his latest vision of what is to come and what’s happening now.
Douglas Kellner, UCLA, author of Cinema Wars and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy