Speed, Concentric Cultures, and Cosmopolitanism
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 28, Heft 5, S. 596-618
ISSN: 0090-5917
Speed must be taken as an "ambiguous" medium in the late-modern condition. On the one hand, compressed time may lead to military action that preempts democratic deliberation (per Paul Virilio's Speed and Politics, 1986), while on the other hand, it can play a positive role in intrastate democracy & cross-state cosmopolitanism. Some nostalgics continue to argue for territorial nations, stable truths, nature as purposive & timeless, & the presence of thick universals. In particular, Martha Nussbaum's (1996) position on concentric culture & thick universals is contested & supplanted with a new matrix of cosmopolitanism that acknowledges the acceleration of time. This matrix posits creative tension between concentric & rhizomatic forces in culture, double entries to the universal, & contestability in regulative ideas. M. Pflum
