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This is a response blog task given by Dr. Dilip Barad. This task is about Speed and Culture. This is important in Cultural Studies and Speed in our life which we never realise.
Paul Virilio's work on 'Dromology' - the Science of Speed - is an exciting reading of late twentieth century cyberculture.
Dromology is derived from the Greek ‘dromos’: avenue or race course. The theory of dromology interprets the world and reality as a resultant of velocity. In Paul Virilio’s 1977 essay entitled “Speed and Politics”, the french philosopher makes a compelling case for an interpretation of history, politics and society in the context of speed. Extending the definition of “dromomania”, Virilio argues that speed became the sole agent and measure of progress. He contends that “there was no ‘industrial revolution’, only ‘democratic revolution’; there is no democracy, only dromocracy; there is no strategy, only dromology.” for more click here
Carl Honore Journalist speak on 'In Paradise of Slowness'World we live in now is a world stuck in fast forward. A world obsessed with speed with doing everything faster with cramming more and more into less time race against the clock this is road runner we are so marinated in the Culture of Speed that we almost Fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of lives health diet, Our work, Relationship, Environment, community he gave Example of Bedtime stories like in nowadays with Speed alexa telling the Stories earlier it was by GrandParents Mother, Father telling us stories
We know, urbanization, consumerism, the workplace, and technology. But I think if you cut through those forces, you get to what might be the deeper driver, the nub of the question, which is how we think about time itself. In other cultures, time is cyclical. It's seen as moving in great, unhurried circles. It's always renewing and refreshing itself. Whereas in the West, time is linear. It's a finite resource; it's always draining away. You either use it, or lose it. "Time is money," as Benjamin Franklin said. And I think what that does to us psychologically is it creates an equation. Time is scarce, so what do we do? Well -- well, we speed up, don't we? We try and do more and more with less and less time. We turn every moment of every day into a race to the finish line -- a finish line, incidentally, that we never reach, but a finish line nonetheless. And I guess that the question is, is it possible to break free from that mindset? And thankfully, the answer is yes, because what I discovered, when I began looking around, is that there is a global backlash against this culture that tells us that faster is always better, and that busier is best.
He gives several examples of Italy and their slow movement like slow food, slow city.He was telling about our nearer situations like work hours weekend and also children having to much speed in their fields like homework, tution, and other many activities they done and not only focused in study but they have many skills and they made their future with those skills also he was given great example of Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard.
He raises the question: why is it so hard to slow down? Speed is fun, speed is sexy. It's all that adrenaline rush. It's hard to give it up. Why we find it hard to slow down is the cultural taboo that we've erected against slowing down. "Slow" is a dirty word in our culture. It's a byword for "lazy," "slacker," for being somebody who gives up. You know, "he's a bit slow." It's actually synonymous with being stupid.Slow movement is hard in our now fast world but it was not impossible for our life and for our family we need to become flow.
In our India last few years speed growing of GDP and Poverty in India is best example we are only see the speed but it was very harmful for democracy see the graph of
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