The Aesthetics of Disappearance
The Aesthetics of Disappearance
Virilio introduces his understanding of "picnolepsy"--the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed. Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception--a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the "vision machine." If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural--and still consummate--theorist of "dromology" (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his understanding of "picnolepsy"--the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject through its very absence: the gaps, glitches, and spee
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Virilio introduces his understanding of "picnolepsy"--the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed. Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception--a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the "vision machine." If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural--and still consummate--theorist of "dromology" (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his understanding of "picnolepsy"--the epileptic state of consciousness produced by speed, or rather, the consciousness invented by the subject through its very absence: the gaps, glitches, and spee
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