First, freedom of mobility is a ruse
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Impacts2NC Virilio Impact____ Increasing speed pushes us toward the integral accident of the destruction of the world – resisting a particular war is the wrong approach. Only resisting he complex of war itself can stop the accident form occuringVirilio in ‘1 |Paul, Virilio Live pg. 28| Here, one must state that the book might also have been titled Pure War (Virilio and Lotringer, 1997 [1983]) since that is the heading of the Introduction.14 That was the time when we were living with the unadulterated balance of terror. What I mean is that one cannot understand the concept of pure war outside of the atomic bomb, the weapon of the apocalypse. At that time, and this has been somewhat forgotten, we were living with the potentiality of a pure war, which, nevertheless, failed to materialize. What is pure war? It is a war of a single utterance: Fear! Fear! Fear! Nuclear deterrence can be conceived of as pure war for the simple reason that nuclear war never took place. However, such deterrence did spawn a technoscientific explosion, inclusive of the Internet, and other satellite technologies. And so one saw that the history of warfare, of siege war, of the war of movement, of total war, of world war, all somehow merged into pure war. That is, into a blockade, into nuclear deterrence. What had been reached was the dimension of ' the integral accident, the moment of the total destruction of the world. And there it stopped. Thus, at that stage, the whole concept of resistance to war became a new phenomenon. It was no longer about resisting an invader, German or other, but about resisting the military-scientific and industrial complex. Take my generation: during the Second World War you had resistance, combat against the Germans who invaded France. During the 1960s and 1970s there was resistance, among others by me, not against an invader, but against the military-industrial complex, that is against the invention of ever crazier sorts of weapons, like the neutron bomb, and ‘Doomsday machines’, something that we saw, for instance, in Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr Strangelove. Thus resistance to pure war is of another nature than resistance to an oppressor, to an invader. It is resistance against science: that is extraordinary, unheard of! ____ Transporation infrastructure is a convoy of colonialism. It transforms the population into an always mobilized force for a perpetual war.Virilio, Curator of the Museum of the Accident, in ‘5 |Paul, Negative Horizon, Pg. 56-7| Imperceptibly, the route [la vote] reproduces the convoy [le convoi\, the¶ alignment of troops; in marching order, the unwinding band channels¶ us together in a column for the sequencing [défilé] of accelerated travel¶ [voyage]. This aligned disposition of bodies in movement repeats that of¶ the body of the trained animal: man entrained [dresse] is a man trained¶ [redresse], in rows by two, by three; the multi-lane motorway inscribes¶ the procession of convoys in the crossing of conquered landscapes.¶ Victory of the sequencing [victoire de defilement or victory parade¶ [défilé de victoire], the high-speed route institutes the invasion as the¶ colonial division of lands institutes the occupation ... the route installs¶ its first line, its front in the conquest of time; here as elsewhere, to¶ vanquish is to advance, and the allotment of territory in the interminable¶ band of the route of penetration is nothing but a dynamic form¶ of colonization, the route straightened for acceleration is nothing other¶ than a 'deportation camp, the punishment of modern asylums arises¶ from the linear and continuous character of the movement and not¶ simply from incarceration. The route that gives rise to the column of¶ vehicles also prompts the colonization of passengers; whether deportees¶ of work or deportees of leisure makes no difference! The transit camp¶ of a final war where the domestication and normalization of motorists¶ is continuously perfected.¶ Site of ejection and no longer of election where the alternating¶ transmigration renews the classical territorial transplantation, it does¶ indeed seem as if transfer must be indispensable to the State. The State¶ apparatus is in fact simply an apparatus of displacement [Replacement36],¶ its stability appears to be assured by a series of temporary gyroscopic¶ processes of delocalization and relocalization. Let's look again for a¶ moment at the Peruvian world: despite its inferior mobility due to the¶ absence of the horse, it relied upon the distances between outposts to¶ maintain state power; however, these distances would prove fatal with¶ the arrival of the European equestrian forces: 'In the Incan Empire¶ borders and subjugated provinces were defended by garrisons, strategic¶ points were guarded by fortresses, pacification was effected by moving¶ people from one point to another, the conquered tribal colonies were¶ installed in secured areas and colonies of the dominant race were¶ established in the subjugated provinces'.37 We note that 'pacification'¶ is accomplished here, as elsewhere, through a complete distancing¶ between the vanquishers and the vanquished, and a similar practice¶ is at work among the Guarani Reducciones. Transport is at the heart¶ of the State apparatus just as it is at the heart of war, while these logistical¶ necessities are to be traced back to their beginnings assured by¶ the woman of burden. Nevertheless, these displacements are still only¶ displacements in space, transplantations from one place to another and¶ not yet transmigrations in the time of acceleration, the weak and irregular¶ performance of vectors is up to this point incapable of prompting¶ a dromocratic revolution of the State, beyond the walled city, the¶ limits of the town or region. The distancing occurs through territorial¶ conquest, it does not yet occur through the conquest of time. If¶ invasion contributes to the institution of public law, its speed is not yet¶ the Law of the world, the State is as yet only the state of siege of citadels,¶ and not yet the state of emergency of vectors. Delocalization is effected¶ through colonies of populations until it comes to be realized in the¶ perpetual movement of columns of vehicles, and this will last until the¶ nineteenth century, when the rail will contribute less to consolidating¶ the colonial conquest than to preparing this historical transformation¶ that today takes the illusory title of 'decolonization. The 'liberation of¶ colonies' brought about by the passage from the era of moving people¶ from place to place to that of outright migrations is in fact only the¶ most evident sign of deterritorialization; it announces the future of an¶ anational 'state of emergency' beyond the old state of siege on the city,¶ where the capitalization of speed attains to such a degree that the old¶ geopolitics tends to become a simple chronopolitics, a true war of time,¶ beyond that of space and territories. 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