Huh. Apparently I did read MALIGN VELOCITIES some years ago. I wonder why the Kindle marked it as unread? Oh well. Didn’t hurt to read it again.
Paul Virilio draws out a whole genealogy of the celebrants of speed: ‘whether it’s the drop-outs, the beat generation, automobile drivers, migrant workers, tourists, Olympic champions or travel agents, the military-industrial democracies have made every social category, without distinction, into unknown soldiers of the order of speeds’