Dromocracy and the
Evolution of Space-Time: On Paul Virilio’s Theory of Space of Logistics
Wu Shiqi
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the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University
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Wu Shiqi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University. Her research areas include Western literary theory and aesthetics.
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Published
2022-04-25
Issue Date
2022-05-06
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.
Wu Shiqi.
Dromocracy and the
Evolution of Space-Time: On Paul Virilio’s Theory of Space of Logistics[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2022, 42(2): 117-125
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Funding
Major Project of National Social Sciences Fund (15ZDB084)
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