{"product_id":"the-futurism-of-the-instant-9780745648644","title":"The Futurism of the Instant","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð by wars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by looking at the future of human settlement and migration through the evolution of the city. What he finds is an accelerating exodus from the city as we have known it, an exodus that reverses the desertion of the countryside for the city in the past. This exodus creates a circulating city of transients on the move that will remove us further and further from our native lands en route to the ultimate exile, beyond planet Earth itself Ð something the world''s mad scientists have already been planning for some time.  \u003cp\u003eExploring the shifts in scale involved in such population flows and the fraught and complex relationship between sedentary settlement and globalization, Virilio considers what the resultant loss of identity might mean, not only in terms of the exhaustion of biodiversity, but also in terms of the catastrophic elimination of temporal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most verbally exuberant of modern philosophers.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Paul Virilio has long been one of the most fascinating and provocative thinkers of our contemporary moment.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Kellner, UCLA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \"If Walter Benjamin had one true intellectual descendant who extended his inquiries into the second half of the twentieth century, this must be Paul Virilio.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLev Manovich, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator’s Preface vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Stop-Eject 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 The Ultracity 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 The Futurism of the Instant 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex 103","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767977443671,"sku":"9780745648644","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745648644.jpg?v=1758715762","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-futurism-of-the-instant-9780745648644","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}