[-empyre-] Critical Dromology - and terror, capital

[simon]

I apologise in advance for introducing a small eddy into the 
conversation. Near the banks, maybe. But perhaps I can segue via the 
notion of flows - from the slowest of the flesh to the fastest of the 
codes of capital:

Virilio invokes another spectre, along with that of the analogical 
consciousness positively haunting and doubling what is, with its 
negative. It is the transistor bridging terror and capital, in the 
synthetic medium of pure speed.

I bring this new capital of terror up as tropic because I recall from my 
reading somewhere in Virilio a writing drawing terror as the 'next 
phase' of capital ... and yet nothing beyond this tantalising, 
terrifying glimpse, connexion.

My question to the partners in this empyrean conversation is: what is 
the revenance of my partial citation ... ? I retrace my steps and still 
I can't find where he put this clue.

And I apologise for the trainspottery - because, on the face of it, I'm 
simply looking for the source in Virilio's texts ... however, to 
reconstruct the image, analogon, of the argument in the future: terror 
achieving not exactly escape velocity but certainly the terminal 
velocity of capital ...

I hope not too vague and off-topic.

Best,

Simon Taylor

www.squarewhiteworld.com