{"product_id":"the-great-accelerator-hardback-9780745653884","title":"The Great Accelerator (Hardback) 9780745653884","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Great Accelerator\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePaul Virilio (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745653884, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 May 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e100 pages\u003cbr\u003e19.8 x 12.9 x 1.5 cm, 0.2 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Virilio has long cultivated a kind of Delphic compression, addictive once you tune in to its cadences.'\u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/may\/11\/etcetera-nonfiction-reviews-roundup\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Poole, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An exciting yet terrifying account of how contemporary society is shaped by an ever-increasing demand for speed … Locating time at the centre of all forms of knowledge, Virilio shows how speed and its measurement is a question belonging to the realm of politics, economics and religion as much as to physics and quantum physics.'\u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/story.asp?storyCode=421752\u0026amp;sectioncode=26\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Paul Virilio's indispensable new work, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Accelerator\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Accelerator\u003c\/i\u003e will be a widely discussed book.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Armitage, Northumbria University\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Paul Virilio's \u003ci\u003eThe Great Accelerator\u003c\/i\u003e 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.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Kellner, UCLA, author of \u003ci\u003eCinema Wars and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOn 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN  in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons  around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one  another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier  particles. Nine days later the Collider broke down and had to be  switched off, the accelerator temporarily silenced, the reckless search  for 'God's particle' put on hold. \u003cp\u003eAt the same time the speeded-up markets of global finance, with screens  of multi-coloured numbers designating the rapid flows of capital, are  suddenly thrown into confusion when news spreads that the great Titan of  Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, has filed for bankruptcy. Investors  panic, share prices plunge and the accelerated markets of global finance  seize up.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn his latest book, Paul Virilio - the leading theorist of our obsession  with technology, speed and power - rewrites 'The Book of Exodus', but  the exodus he talks about is no longer conducted in a single file of  people headed for some possible Promised Land. It is a closed-circuit  exodus within a cramped world, where reduction in human stocks will  suddenly look like the only solution to the lockdown of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Insecurity of History.  \u003cp\u003eToo Late for Private Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Accelerator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407324311832,"sku":"9780745653884","price":31.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745653884.jpg?v=1784161854","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-great-accelerator-hardback-9780745653884","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}