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Speed and Politics was first published in Paris against a backdrop characterized by the complicit, symmetrical stand-of of nuclear superpowers sealed by the SALT II accords, as well as by the rise of political terrorism in London, Rome, Mogadishu, Stammheim, Phnom Penh, Palestine, etc. By then, May 1 968 (to which Virilio owed his appointment as Director of the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture) had soured into a restless, if also fertile, malaise. A new French society was reconfiguring itself around audiovisual media:
Introduction: Logistics of Habitable Circulation
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