Main entry:

Virilio, Paul.

Title & Author:

The original accident / Paul Virilio ; translated by Julie Rose.

Publication:

Cambridge ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, 2007.

Description:

120 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-111) and index.
1. Caution -- 2. The invention of accidents -- 3. The accident argument -- 4. The accident museum -- 5. The future of the accident -- 6. The expectation horizon -- 7. Unknown quantity -- 8. Public emotion -- 9. The original accident -- 10. The dromosphere.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

Virilio defines the ways in which postindustrial science has merged with out-and-out hyperterrorism to threaten the foundations of Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian civilisation, and the future of the planet with them, through innovation of mass catastrophes that are part and parcel of its panoply of inventions.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780745636139 (hbk.)
0745636136 (hbk.)
0745636144 (pbk.)
9780745636146 (pbk.)
9780745636144
9780745636136

Subject:

Risk management.
Disasters.
Progress.
Risk Management
Gestion du risque.
Catastrophes.
Progrès.
risk management.
disasters.
Cultuurfilosofie.
Cultuurkritiek.
Technische ontwikkeling.
Olyckor.
Framstegstanken.
filosofie
philosophy
politiek
politics
rampen
hedendaagse samenleving
contemporary society
technische vooruitgang
technical progress
terrorisme
terrorism
denken
thinking
Political Philosophy
Politieke filosofie

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256031
Call No.: BIB 186316
Status: Available