dromosphere

English

Etymology

dromo- +‎ -sphere

Noun

dromosphere (plural dromospheres)

The aspect of modern life or of a social domain that is characterized by speed and rapid change.
- 2005, Craig Newnes, Nick Radcliffe, Making and Breaking Children's Lives, page 91:
  Evidence that the dromosphere may be changing our children comes from three recent investigations.
- 2005, Paul Virilio, City of Panic, page 58:
  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 ...
- 2011, John Armitage, Virilio Now: Current Perspectives in Virilio Studies, →ISBN, page 63:
  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.
- 2012, John David Ebert, The Age of Catastrophe: Disaster and Humanity in Modern Times, →ISBN:
  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.
- 2014, G. Schiller, S. Rubidge, Choreographic Dwellings: Practising Place, →ISBN:
  In the dromosphere there is only the paradoxical possibility of an immediate memory.