TY - JOUR
T1 - Acceleration Nation
T2 - An Investigation into the Violence of Speed and the Uses of Accidents in Iceland
AU - Arnason, Arnar
AU - Hafsteinsson, Sigurjón Baldur
AU - Grétarsdóttir, Tinna
PY - 2007/10
Y1 - 2007/10
N2 - There are two starting points from which this paper is constructed: first, Virilio’s observation that the wealth of societies is founded on their dromocratic condition, that the faster societies accelerate their citizens, commercial goods and communication the more political and economic power they have and, second, the links that he traces between technologies of speed and acceleration and the accident. We suggest that Virilio’s ideas on this invite and deserve a closer ethnographic scrutiny than they have so far received, scrutiny that highlights the varied ways in which speed, acceleration and the accident are articulated in different cultural contexts. To this end we offer an investigation into the dromocratic condition, the violence of speed and the uses of accidents in Iceland.
AB - There are two starting points from which this paper is constructed: first, Virilio’s observation that the wealth of societies is founded on their dromocratic condition, that the faster societies accelerate their citizens, commercial goods and communication the more political and economic power they have and, second, the links that he traces between technologies of speed and acceleration and the accident. We suggest that Virilio’s ideas on this invite and deserve a closer ethnographic scrutiny than they have so far received, scrutiny that highlights the varied ways in which speed, acceleration and the accident are articulated in different cultural contexts. To this end we offer an investigation into the dromocratic condition, the violence of speed and the uses of accidents in Iceland.
U2 - 10.1080/14735780701723314
DO - 10.1080/14735780701723314
M3 - Article
SN - 1473-5784
VL - 48
SP - 199
EP - 217
JO - Culture, Theory and Critique
JF - Culture, Theory and Critique
IS - 2
ER -