Item – Thèses Canada

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Numéro d'OCLC
76480986
Auteur
Adams, Jason,1975-
Titre
Popular defense in the empire of speed : Paul Virilio and the phenomenology of the political body.
Diplôme
M.A. -- Simon Fraser University, 2004
Éditeur
Ottawa : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, [2006]
Description
2 microfiches
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Résumé
The argument that technological progress has been complementary to the fight against totalitarian forms of government is repeated often within the social sciences. What these arguments ignore however, are the ties that bind the Nazi and Soviet forms of totalitarianism to the mass liberal democracies under which we live today through their common embrace of the ideology of progress, under which all that is external to technology is redefined as raw material for its 'inevitable' expansion. This thesis considers the shape that this complicity has taken over the course of the twentieth century through an engagement with the thought of Paul Virilio, whose life's work has demonstrated that technologization has depended upon the uprooting, fragmentation and totalization of the 'animal bodies' of men, women and children, the 'social bodies' of families, cities and nations and the 'territorial bodies' of forests, oceans and mountains. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
ISBN
049403291X
9780494032916