Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Great AcceleratorCondition: NewEAN: 9780745653884ISBN: 9780745653884Publisher: Polity PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 05/04/2012Item Height: 197mmItem Length: 125mmItem Width: 14mmItem Weight: 196gLanguage: EnglishDescription: On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a seventeen-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier particles. Nine days later the Collider broke down and had to be switched off, the accelerator temporarily silenced, the reckless search for 'God's particle' put on hold. At the same time the speeded-up markets of global finance, with screens of multi-coloured numbers designating the rapid flows of capital, are suddenly thrown into confusion when news spreads that the great Titan of Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, has filed for bankruptcy. Investors panic, share prices plunge and the accelerated markets of global finance seize up. In his latest book, Paul Virilio - the leading theorist of our obsession with technology, speed and power - rewrites 'The Book of Exodus', but the exodus he talks about is no longer conducted in a single file of people headed for some possible Promised Land. It is a closed-circuit exodus within a cramped world, where reduction in human stocks will suddenly look like the only solution to the lockdown of history.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Society & CultureAuthor: Paul VirilioRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Great Accelerator
Title: The Great Accelerator
EAN: 9780745653884
ISBN: 9780745653884
Release Date: 05/04/2012
Release Year: 2012
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 100 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Great Accelerator
Publisher: Polity Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Social Aspects, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year: 2012
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 7.8 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Technology & Engineering
Author: Paul Virilio
Item Width: 5.1 in
Format: Hardcover
