Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Figures viii
5. Contributors x
6. 1. Aesthetics, Vision and Speed: An Introduction to Virilio and Visual Culture 1
7. 2. The Illusions of Zero Time 28
8. 3. Towards a New Ecology of Time 37
9. 4. Strangers to the Stars: Abstraction, Aeriality, Aspect Perception 46
10. 5. Desert Wars: Virilio and the Limits of ‘Genuine Knowledge’ 69
11. 6. Light Weapons/Darkroom Shadows: Photography, Cinema, War 86
12. 7. History in the ‘Mise en Abyme of the Body’: Ranbir Kaleka and the ‘Art of Auschwitz’ after Virilio 102
13. 8. Spectres of Perception, or the Illusion of Having the Time to See: The Geopolitics of Objects, Apprehension and Movement in Bashir Makhoul’s Enter Ghost, Exit Ghost 128
14. 9. The Event 150
15. 10. The Face of the Figureless: Aesthetics, Sacred Humanism and the Accident of Art 156
16. 11. What We Do is Secrete: On Virilio, Planetarity and Data Visualisation 180
17. 12. Relics of Acceleration: A Field Guide 207
18. 13. The Production of the Present 227
19. Index 242