speed would be something of a "religion" in time? [141]. This "dromocratic revolution" involves means of fabricating speed with the steam engine, then the combustion engine, and in our day nuclear energy and instantaneous forms of warfare and communication. Technology is used to build the global war machine, ?the more speed increases, the faster freedom decreases? [142]. According to Virilio the phenomenon of technology came in large part from the arsenal and war economy. The author?s concept of post-contemporary reality is founded on the sociology of military technology, which changes the contemporary perceptions of space and time. ?the transportation capacity created by the mass production of automobilies [?] can become a social assault, a revolution sufficient and able to modify the citizen?s way of life by transforming all the consumer?s needs, by totally remodeling a territory?? [26]. It is the dissolution of the social. The conquest of the postmodern technology of pure speed as a war machine, one in which we are all processed: ?the militarization of societies [?] makes every citizen a war machine? [90]. Weapons of war are based on developing the speed of attack. "Speed is the essence of war" [Sun Tzu]. Military technology, technologies of representation, and new computer and information technologies have constituted the post-contemporary. War intensified through technology, which is accelerated by speed. War is the center of civilization. ?The class struggle is replaced by the struggle of the technological bodies of the armies according to their dynamic efficiency? [48]. We are a culture inclined towards extremism at a point where technology appears to speed up as it approaches inertia. ?The treshold of speed is continously shrinking, and the faster engine is beconig more and more difficult to conceive of? [46]. Technologies of simultaneity and coherence, maintain civilian society in a state of permanent mobilization, drive...
