On Speed and Ecstasy: Paul Virilio's 'Aesthetics of Disappearance' and the Rhetoric of Media

(Rochester, N.Y.: Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1983), p. 97. Along with Frampton, I draw on the following sources for my account of Breedlove’s crash: Shell—Spirit of America, Shell Oil website, http://ms.shellus.com/SpiritofAmerica, accessed March 29, 1999; David Diamond, “The Fastest American Hero,” Wired 4:11 (November 1996): 184–187; Dean Kuipers, “The Need for Speed,” Wired 5:10 (October 1997): 108–115; Paul Virilio, “Negative Horizons,” in Semiotext[e] USA, trans. Mark A. Polizzotti (New York: Semiotext[e], 1987), pp. 163–180. Breedlove’s engine was a Korean War–era surplus J–47, bought for $500.

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