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The Great Accelerator
Paul Virilio
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Hardback. On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier particles. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier particles. Nine days later the Collider broke down and had to be switched off, the accelerator temporarily silenced, the reckless search for 'God's particle' put on hold.
On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier particles. Nine days later the Collider broke down and had to be switched off, the accelerator temporarily silenced, the reckless search for 'God's particle' put on hold.
At the same time the speeded-up markets of global finance, with screens of multi-coloured numbers designating ... Read more
In his latest book, Paul Virilio - the leading theorist of our obsession with technology, speed and power - rewrites 'The Book of Exodus', but the exodus he talks about is no longer conducted in a single file of people headed for some possible Promised Land. It is a closed-circuit exodus within a cramped world, where reduction in human stocks will suddenly look like the only solution to the lockdown of history.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745653884
SKU
V9780745653884
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About Paul Virilio
Paul Virilio is former Director of the École spéciale d'architecture in Paris.
Reviews for The Great Accelerator
'Virilio has long cultivated a kind of Delphic compression, addictive once you tune in to its cadences.' Steven Poole, The Guardian 'An exciting yet terrifying account of how contemporary society is shaped by an ever-increasing demand for speed … Locating time at the centre of all forms of knowledge, Virilio shows how speed and its ... Read more