The Turtle

Information overload and news that create shock: Is this a modern form of terrorism?

PURPOSE.

The Turtle aims at creating a space of thought and praxis, without, however, staying behind on the news. After all, as in Aesop’s fable, “The Hare & the Tortoise”, the creature with the checkered shell gets to the finish line first, even though it is competing with the faster hare.

The Turtle (with the accompanying motto ‘More Haste Less Speed’) is based upon the concepts of acceleration and deceleration. Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) and Paul Virilio (1932–2018) were among the few philosophers who analysed in depth the relationship between speed and media, outlining its implications in the fields of politics, aesthetics, ethics and life in general.

The Canadian theorist was the first to speak about the “visual stress” caused by the media (since the invention of printing), while the important French thinker Virilio pointed out that in the accelerating society in which we live, time is flattened and man’s ability to think is reduced: “In today’s world,” to borrow a phrase from his book “Pure War,” “real time has no thought.” In other words, there is a violence in the rapid dissemination of information that has not yet been understood, especially in our era when speed is now measured in nanoseconds and communication never stops.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Suzie Miller, Prima Facie. First published as a paperback original in Great Britain in 2022 by Nick Hern Books.

Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism- Is There No Alternative? Zero Books, UK, 2022. First published in 2014.

Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography. Penguin Books 2023. First published in the United States of America by Random House, 1974.

Germaine Greer, The Change. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2018. First published in Great Britain 1991.

Hugues, Robert. The Fatal Shore. Vintage Books, London, 2003. First published in Great Britain in 1987 by Collins Harvill.

Chatwin, Bruce. The Songlines. Vintage, London, 1998. First published in Great Britain in 1987 by Jonathan Cape.

Carey, Peter. True History of the Kelly Gang. Faber and Faber, 2001.

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