Dromology originates from the Greek word dromos. Hence,
dromology is the science of the ride, the journey, the drive, the way. This
means that speed and riches are totally linked concepts. And that the history of the world is not only about the political economy of riches, that is,
wealth, money, capital, but also about the political economy of speed.
Virilio’s texts deal with the impact of speed, disaster and accident on the
contemporary world.
Vehicles of speed create new dromospheric chronology, new
tracks and nodal points (ports, roads, airports, telecommunications etc.)
through which things, goods, money, weapons, people or information will start
flowing within a different structure. The result is a victory of the new logistics of perception, new dromoscopy. Indirect inner light of screens is our second sun. The text analyses Virilio’s proposition that technical apparatus
came into play employing active wave optics and the speed of indirect light,
which contributed to the emergence dromoscopic order of vision, which completely
transformed the existing logistics of perception of reality.
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