Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy Book

In some ways, this resembles poetry. Virilio can become very abstract in places, and it sometimes feels like he's letting linguistic play and word association guide his thinking, or at least uses these as tools to generate new concepts to work back into the progression of his thought. In this way, the concepts both generate and are generated by the words that express them. This may be entirely wrong, and this is admittedly the first Virilio I've read besides assorted quotations in other works. In these quotations, his thinking seems to have a crystalline clarity, as do many lines appearing within these essays, which becomes a little more fragmentary in the expansion and variation of a full exploration. I find these essays, and the independently-functioning statements that compose them, to be more spurs for original thought-direction than necessarily possessed of any absolute inherent truth. Even so, for a collection originally published in the 80s, much about space and communication retains high present relevance.