ON SPEED

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speed creates pure objects. it is itself a pure object, since it cancels out the ground and territorial reference-points, since it runs ahead of time to annul time itself, since it moves more quickly than its own cause and obliterates that cause by outstripping it. speed is the triumph of effect over cause, the triumph of instantaneity over time as depth, the triumph of the surface and pure objectality over the profundity of desire. speed creates a space of initiation , which may be lethal; its only rule is to leave no trace behind.
jean baudrillard in ‘america’
(translation : chris turner)
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