ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents the closing thoughts of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book identifies some of the key areas of Virilio’s negativity about the past, present and future: the endo-colonization of life; the reduction of politics to a democracy of emotion; the emergence of the integral accident. Someone who buys in to the liberal view of history and progress might reply to Virilio that while he identifies aspects of the present that are troubling. It details some of the author’s responses to the contemporary world that are informed by reading and re-reading Virilio. The dream worlds of their future development circulated through the propaganda of progress mask the precariousness of the situation. The book argues Virilio’s work provides a companion to help people make sense of the world around them, from their experience of mobility, vision machines, cities of panic through to questions about speed, the global economy, cinema and war, architecture and security.
