Land, wealth, speed

Virilio notes that (in Adam’s summary) “through the ages, the wealth and power associated with ownership of land was equally tied to the capacity to traverse it and to the speed at which this could be achieved.” A lord of vast holdings without horses to defend its distant borders won’t be lord for long. Even in societies where wealth is “space” (ie, land) based, it is necessarily also based in mastery of time.

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