Speed and Politics: An Essay on Dromology.
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Speed and Violence: Sacrifice in Virilio, Derrida, and Girard. Sociology / Cultural.
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Abstract. Speed and Violence considers Paul Virilio’s theory of the accident and. In consideration of the possibility that Virilio’s thesis denies the. I relate his technology / accident economy to.
Derrida’s deconstruction. In particular the essay examines how Virilio’s. Beyond this examination of Virilio’s.
Through a reading that grounds the technology / accident bind in time. Girardian concept of the victim in order to suggest. Virilio’s dromology (theory of speed) affirms. IPaul Virilio’s theory of the accident suggests that when one creates.
Thus, the invention of new. Regarding this technology / accident. Virilio writes: The accident is an inverted miracle, a secular miracle, a revelation.
Later in the same interview, Politics of. Very Worst, he expands his position in order to show how the machine. When the European railroads. The railroad engineers convened in Brussels in 1. It was a way to effectively regulate. The sinking of the Titanic is a similar example. After. this tragedy, SOS was developed, a way of calling for help by radio.
The. explosion of the Challenger space shuttle is a considerable event. Virilio’s reference to the Challenger space shuttle as the.
It shows how the. Thus Virilio explains how the excessive pace of. The. essential function of the destructive event is to consume the excessive energy. According to this realization it is clear that the destructive accident. At the synchronic level, we can see how Virilio’s theory of technological. It is apparent that there is. However, beyond this analysis of the dynamic technology / accident bind.
Bataille’s (1. 99. Virilio’s account appears to follow. Derrida’s theory of diff. Put another way, because Virilio’s reasoning suggests that each. Virilio’s text. For instance. Challenger example, Virilio’s theory implies that the invention. In other words, the.
Virilio fails to excavate the . I want to suggest that Virilio’s theory of the functional accident. My article draws on the work of Girard and Derrida as counter- points.
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In the first instance, the parallels between Virilio and Derrida are clear. Moreover, according to. Bandera’s (1. 98. Derrida, the silent a that stands at the. Like Virilio’s. concept of technology, this analysis illustrates deconstruction’s. As Derrida’s. (1. Plato’s . In contrast to Derrida’s sphere of timeless.
Virilio’s synchronic theory of the accident is driven by a. Girard’s thesis on the acceleration of mimetic relations.
Virilio’s concept of speed leads the technology /. By contrast, as Bandera explains, Derrida neglects the. His deconstructive play of diff. And since their reciprocal. Which means that, beyond a certain time threshold la. Beyond such a point, la diff. With the. current world- wide revolution in communication and telematics.
So there is the risk not of a local accident in a. I want to argue that Virilio’s theory of the speed limit mirrors Bandera’s.
However, apart from serving. Derrida’s textual. Virilio’s dromology also allows one to understand how the theory of. That is, whereas Bandera’s critique. Derrida shows how deconstruction’s theory of timeless textuality must reach. It is the excavation of this point which allows one to ground Virilio’s.
Grounding deconstruction in time through reference to the notion of. Bandera reads Derrida’s project in the light of Girard’s. On this basis, he argues that Derrida’s textual system. In other words. it offsets its own violent demise through the expulsion of the sacrificial. Here, Bandera explains that, following Derrida’s exposure of. Girard’s scapegoat mechanism.
Although. the sacrificial object is never consciously consumed, the mechanism that enacts. The scapegoat is. Like Derrida’s deconstruction, the project that in Bandera's. Virilio’s technology /.
In this perspective, one is. Virilio’s accident is actually constitutive of an. Although the descriptions of the failures of technology. Politics of the Very Worst (1. The Information Bomb.
Girardian / Gansian sense, it is still unclear whether the structural. Perhaps the answer to the question of the predictability of Virilio’s. On the synchronic level, the. Herein lies the fundamental irony. Virilio’s bind: the accidental event acts as the critique of the.
Virilio’s. notion of the accident is paradoxical; his use of the term suggests that he. This suggests that Virilio’s use of the notion of the. My claim is that Virilio is well aware of this. He knows that accidents will happen and it is this. In essence this is the accusation that Bandera levels at Derrida- -that. For Bandera, Derrida’s victimization of metaphysics defines. On the one. hand, the destruction of metaphysics allows for the survival of endless.
Following such a realization it quickly becomes a question of. For. Gans (1. 99. Like the debate between deconstruction and metaphysics, Virilio’s. Gans’s thesis. However, I want to argue that what.
Girard from Gans is the former’s emphasis on the moral position. Although generative anthropology views the representation. Agamben’s study, Homo Sacer (1. Gansian notion of signification, which acts as a device. Agamben refers to.
Germanic myth, in order. According to this idea, the liminal state occupied by the. Like Girard’s. foundational victim, who is able to stand as the inclusive- exclusion by.
Agamben’s wolf- man. His use of. the sign as a marker for the division of humanity and animality threatens to. It is this. non- human element that prevents homo sacer’s entry into the city, the. Conversely, Girard’s theory, which regards. Christ as the exemplary scapegoat, is closer to Agamben’s notion of. Here, Girard’s reading of biblical scripture. Hegel’s master / slave dialectic in order to show how the victim.
O’Neill, 1. 99. 6). Following Girard’s reading of the crucifixion and Agamben’s notion of. Virilio’s. technology / accident spiral in the morality attached to the victimary position. As the scapegoat mechanism accelerates, more victims are required to. Both. examples recall the morality of the originary scene, an anthropological. Derrida’s timeless textuality prohibits.
IIDerrida’s tombstones of presence hide nothing; one is urged to focus on the. In. contrast, Virilio’s accidents commemorate the demise of the victim. As the. threat of the total accident deepens, Virilio grounds the technology / accident. The crash victim’s. Indeed, as if to compare the phenomenological.
Virilio refers to the endless fractality of quantum. Derrida’s diff. On the. On the. other hand, an intensive time of the infinitely small of time. Genesis.. is in danger of losing its meaning, at.
Following Girard’s example of the subterranean. Virilio argues that Derrida must rediscover the. In contrast to this position, writers such as Richard Beardsworth (2. Colin Davies (2. 00. In a recent. issue of Cultural Values, both these authors defended deconstruction’s. Girard and Virilio, eliminate difference by excluding.
He. argues that by scapegoating non- modern society Girard performs the ritualistic. Girard’s thesis of nonviolence inverts into violence by becoming.
Beardsworth. 2. 00. For Beardsworth, Girard’s exclusion of violence in order to secure the. Beardsworth. argues that, in thus deciding (from the Latin word . In sympathy. with this position, Davies’ article . He. argues that whereas both Freud, in Totem and Taboo (1. Levinas. in Totality and Infinity (1.
Girard’s fetishizes the. Throughout his essay, Davies suggests. Girard’s commitment to the single truth of victimization leads him to. Davies argues that, in contrast to. For Beardsworth, Girard scapegoats alternative truths in order to secure.
Davies suggests that the. Girardian concept of truth leads its author to become caught up. However, both these writers. They fail to understand the logic of reversibility according to. Derridean search for difference leads to a state of undifferentiation.
In essence, this. Lacanian logic, exemplified by Holbein’s painting The. Ambassadors, which suggests that when one searches for a specific meaning.
Derrida’s quest for difference, the abyssal nature of the Real will. Against this eternal obscurity. Lacanian psychoanalysis argues that the only way to comprehend the meaning of.
Real, as the viewer of Holbein’s skull is well aware, is by focusing. This paradoxical strategy of evasion as. Zizek’s book Looking Awry. Girardian victimary. Girard’s empirical truth- claims, the objectivity that. Beardsworth and Davies critique, re- establish a moral victimary position, what. Real (Zupancic, 1.
Although this strategy appears to. Derrida’s notion of diff. As opposed to Girard, whose objectivity opens a space for. Lacanian Real. (Girard saves the privilege of the victim’s phenomenological experience by. Derrida’s attempt to. Girard’s Hegelian dichotomy. Kearney suggests that deconstruction’s hospitality is.
If all reading is reading in the dark how can we discern between holy. In sum. deconstructive non- judgmentalism requires to be supplemented with an. Kearney, 1. 99. 9: 2. While Kearney’s essay allows one to understand how deconstruction advocates. Bandera’s article makes it clear. In order to make its own voice heard amongst the many available.
As. Bandera’s article points out, critiques such as those of Beardsworth and. Davies set out to scapegoat metaphysics in order to secure deconstruction’s. Far from advancing the open system Beardsworth suggests in his. As Jameson’s (2. 00.
Akin to recent critiques of the dominant ideology thesis. Abercrombie, Hill, and Turner (1. Other opens the way for otherness at the cost of.
One is allowed entrance to deconstruction’s space of. Agamben’s. notion of . For both Girard and Virilio this is an apocalyptic condition. As The. Information Bomb (2. Virilio’s example of the Philip Nitschke / Bob Dent case acts as a critique.