Speed and Politics: An Essay on Dromology
by Paul Virilio and Mark Polizzotti

COMMENT : Originally published in 1977 as 'Vitesse et Politique', Éditions Galileé, Paris.

The loss of material space leads to the government of nothing but time. 'The Ministry of Time' sketched in each vector will finally be accomplished following the dimensions of the biggest vehicle there is, 'the state-vector'. The whole geographic history of the distribution of land and countries would stop in favor of a single regrouping of time, power no longer being comparable to anything but a 'meteorology'. In this precarious fiction speed would suddenly become a destiny, a form of progress, in other words a 'civilisation' in which each speed would be something of a region of time.