dromosphere

plural dromospheres

1. The aspect of modern life or of a social domain that is characterized by speed and rapid change.

   In the dromosphere there is only the paradoxical possibility of an immediate memory.

   2014, G. Schiller, S. Rubidge, Choreographic Dwellings: Practising Place, →ISBN

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   Evidence that the dromosphere may be changing our children comes from three recent investigations.

   2005, Craig Newnes, Nick Radcliffe, Making and Breaking Children's Lives, page 91

   For want of any temporal depth, or in other words an historical perspective, this LIVE ART enlists solely like any other merchandise in the financial dromosphere of the globalization of the art market - anticipating the coming crash of its basic value, which will shortly extend the collapse in value of the new technologies of the image (digital or otherwise), those famous new technologies of information and communication startups, or NTIC, which recently ...

   2005, Paul Virilio, City of Panic, page 58

   Architecture can contribute here, in the evocative potentials of its atmospheres – or its dromospheres – offering vectors which project the image of a vortex for reflective measurement of acceleration.

   2011, John Armitage, Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies, →ISBN, page 63

   Once the walls of Medieval cities were brought down by the advent of gunpowder, cities could no longer keep the dromosphere out, and so the emergence of the police in the sixteenth century, we note, coincides with the (eventual) fall of the walls surrounding Western towns.

   2012, John David Ebert, The Age of Catastrophe: Disaster and Humanity in Modern Times, →ISBN