In ”The Aesthetics of Disappearance” Paul Virilio look at how our perception of the world and the society has being changed by machines and technology. A key term is speed. Virilio means that speed is essential to understand our world. Do we look at today’s society is it all about time. “Time is money” is one of the most famous quotes known. This gives a description of what drives us and what’s important. The earlier machines had one task, that was to increase the in transport and in the factories. Today we have countless technical devises to help us through the day.
Virilio says that we are victims for the machines speed. We see today that the world shrinks and becomes smaller as a result of the increasing speed through communication and transport. Also called globalisation.
Further Vrilio say that there is no stable fundament left in the society because information is speed and duration does not exist any more. In this post modern world destabilize the know time and space terms, like: present/past, real/unreal and close/distant. The basic know terms become outdated.
Virilio has a pessimistic view on the evolution of machines and its place in the world today. Without the machines our society would probably be light-years from were we are now. It would be harder to live and we would also not live as long as we do now. But his criticism is more about how dependent we has become of the machines and we have integrated them into our lives. This makes us vulnerable and it creates a whole new view on life. I agree with Virilio. Looking forward in time I look at a world where the machines/technology totally controls us. We live through the machines, not with the like we do today. The machines potential blind us. Technology and machines are not in it self, dangerous but uncritical use of is unfortunate.
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