Speed, Politics, and Information. A Theoretical Proposal

Abstract

This article problematizes the concept of speed, rooted in Paul Virilio’s dromological thesis, and it exposes various interpretative registers that seek to articulate speed, war, politics, information, virtual reality, and capitalism in the same thread, thus understanding that they are not isolated phenomena but modulations of the same process. We question how the theoretical projections about the political problem of speed are traced, and how they reveal the transformations of the flow of information and the immediacy of communication’s practices in highly mediatized societies. The transformations of informational speeds show that governing consists in actualizing as a temporal continuity proper to virtual reality.