ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Virilio’s concept of endo-colonization, attempting to negotiate a set of positions that can lead the reader into a ‘hyperbolic’ vision of society and security. It aims to unpack the concerns that underpin Virilio’s ‘negativity’ about security, technology and the liberal world order. The chapter discusses the themes with an optimistic story about the future of security, technology and global politics: the story provides a way of introducing and explaining the logic of Virilio’s negativity about tendencies that underpin the propaganda of progress about the future of society. The first reason for Virilio’s negativity about the transparent world emerges from comments he makes on the ‘society of disappearance’ made in 1983: Until the Second World War, until the concentration camps societies were societies of incarceration. Virilio often discusses the social, political, cultural, economic and military transformations that have intensified during the twentieth century in terms of the displacement of geopolitics by chronopolitics.
