ABSTRACT
In this chapter I begin by exploring the impact of Paul Virilio’s thought upon British academia from the 1980s through the 1990s to the contemporary. Following this work, I move on to show how Virilio’s dromology can shed light on the history and present of British society. In the first section of the chapter I focus specifically on Virilio’s impact on the inter-disciplinary field of cultural studies, which fused a range of fields in an attempt to understand the changes taking place under conditions of globalisation. In the second section of the chapter I move on to explore the impact of his thought upon thinking about changes to British society in a high-speed world where structural limits were replaced by a logic of transgression and deterritorialisation.
