TY  - CHAP
T1  - Relics of acceleration
T2  - Virilio and visual culture
A1  - Dunlop,Gair
AU  - Dunlop,Gair
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
CY  - Edinburgh
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013
N2  - Scale, mass, solidity and haunting bulk are factors that are unavoidable when thinking about twentieth-century military and experimental scientific structures. Whether sites of state science or defence, they have many aspects in common: secrecy, a cultivated sense of unknowability and a paradoxical relation between intangibility of subject and solidity of structure. This chapter reflects on some of these places as key sites in the modern history of speed in the UK. Acceleration takes on different guises in each. The specific historical contingency of these sites also leaves space for re-imaginings and alternative possibilities to be considered without the pessimistic inevitability that a focus on contemporary military futurism would yield. 
AB  - Scale, mass, solidity and haunting bulk are factors that are unavoidable when thinking about twentieth-century military and experimental scientific structures. Whether sites of state science or defence, they have many aspects in common: secrecy, a cultivated sense of unknowability and a paradoxical relation between intangibility of subject and solidity of structure. This chapter reflects on some of these places as key sites in the modern history of speed in the UK. Acceleration takes on different guises in each. The specific historical contingency of these sites also leaves space for re-imaginings and alternative possibilities to be considered without the pessimistic inevitability that a focus on contemporary military futurism would yield. 
KW  - Military simulation
KW  - Virilio
KW  - contemporary archaeology
KW  - N Fine Arts
UR  - http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748654451
M1  - Chapter
SN  - 9780748654444
SN  - 9780748654451
BT  - Virilio and visual culture
A2  - Bishop,Ryan
ED  - Bishop,Ryan
T3  - Critical connections
T3  - en_GB
SP  - 207
EP  - 226
ER  -