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"(...) the essentially apocalyptic logic of the occidental history of
technology (...)"

Media Temporalities in the Internet:
Philosophy of Time and Media with Derrida and Rorty,
by Mike Sandbothe, Department of Philosophy, Friedrich Schiller University
Jena

"(...) the French dromologist Paul Virilio describes the establishment of
the new unitary technological time not as the universalization of historical
temporal structures, but far more as being their radical destruction.
Virilio's basic media-philosophical diagnosis states that the "cinématique"
(Virilio, 1990, p. 53) technologies which have spread in the twentieth
century aim at a radical dissolution of those temporal structures which have
been considered as ineluctable basic constituents of human existence from
Augustine through to Heidegger (Virilio, 1991, p. 336).
For Virilio this strong destructive thesis is at the same time linked with
the idea of a transhuman time regime of pure speed (Virilio, 1984, 1994),
inscribing itself in the human soul worldwide via television and computer
networks. The transition from the old opposition between natural and
historical time to the new uniform simulatory time of technology comprises,
according to Virilio, the essentially apocalyptic logic of the occidental
history of technology. Against this background the unification and
universalization of time marked by science and technology is described by
him not (as by Lübbe or Prigogine) as the originary discovery of an inner
convergence point between nature and history, but as the technological
victory of inauthentic, natural time stuctures over the authentic
temporality of history. Of course, from Virilio's perspective, one shaped by
Christianity, this can only amount to a Pyrrhic victory: for the history of
this suppression, which began with the technological Fall of Man, continues,
for Virilio, to testify ex negativo the hidden unity of an eschatological
temporality, and it is only this latter temporality which, according to him,
 can lay claim to true universality."

http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue2/sandbothe.html