The History of Critical Theory
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There are certain thinkers whose theories have such resonance in our current time that they offer us some semblance in the chaos we find ourselves trying to navigate through and make sense of. Not that they offer up an Utopian narrative to give hope. Rather, what comes forth in their writings are ideas and explanations that illuminate paths that help ourselves find our own sense of meaning in the world around us.
Paul Virilio is one man whose writing are a shamanistic summoning forth of the demonology of speed which inscribes society”…”the double meaning of apocalypse — cataclysm and remembrance. Cataclysm: “…history of the technological death – instinct moving at the speed of light.” Remembrance: “…a thinker whose ethical dissent marks the first glimmerings of a fateful implosion of that festival of seduction, fascination, terror, and boredom we have come to know as digital culture”