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Summary Of Paul Virilio's Essay 'City Of Panic'

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A Summary of “City of Panic” In the essay, “City of Panic”, Paul Virilio (2004) presents a theory called “City of Panic”, which is the best to describe urban chaos. And he also states the fractalization in globalization, and the remodeling of world order, armies, and business. After being bombarded of looping image of disasters and the falling of their symbolic constructions, people in cities are tend to be in a unsustainable mental situation, and it becomes an important theory to represent urban chaos. In recent world, the author finds that the “metapolitical” bubble is going to burst, and also, the government and geopolitical blocks is going to decentralize, making metropolarization a totally illusory. This phenomenon reflects the unavailability
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