The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.

Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.

Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal political and economic policies of countries like India and Pakistan where tons of money are currently being spent on atomic weaponry. This is abhorrent!

Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.