
Paul Virilio's "Open Sky"
Theory & Philosophy
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The Eternal Moment of Swaying Through the Eternity
In the ether of time light is in no way analogous to our usual calculation of duration and geophysical span that are bound by our temporal understanding of the world. In this space we become weightless, we kind of strip away the hindrances of our bodies to become angelic to some extent. So as he says, without distant horizon there is no longer any possibility of glimpsing reality. We drop into the time of a fall, a kid to that of the fallen angels and the earth's horizon then becomes just another beige des arms. The age of enlightenment is eradicated along with the idea of the real in the age of the speed of light.
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