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This paper is the first article in English of Rosenstock-Huessy'sFull Count of the Times, the second volume of hisSociology. The vastness and diversity of Rosenstock-Huessy's corpus, plus the associative manner of his writing, makes any systematic analysis of his work very difficult. Yet he explicitly stated in his Sociology that he did have a system. In this paper I clarify why his work is devoted to theFull Count of the Times. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Arguing towards a theory of dromology, Paul Virilio engages at every turn with the consequences of acceleration on society - primarily the ever-increasing speed of information transmission - on society. This paper uses Virilio's theories, specifically his arguments surrounding the impact of acceleration on our experiences of space, to question the workings of agency between humans and technology. Looking specifically at video games and the practice of modding to make user-generated machinima, this paper suggests that a simple binary positioning of humans and techno-agents is an insufficient way to approach the relationships, patterns, effects and outcomes that emerge at the juncture of humans and 'their' technology. Instead, this paper suggests a model of agency that does not privilege a techno-agent, as in the case of Virilio, over a human agent and suggests that it is potentially more useful to consider agency as distributed between, among and across, an assemblage of both human and non-human actors. The aim of this paper is also to consider what anthropological enquiry, and by extension its methodologies, can contribute to a discussion of Virilio's work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are two starting points from which this paper is constructed: first, Virilio's observation that the wealth of societies is founded on their dromocratic condition, that the faster societies accelerate their citizens, commercial goods and communication the more political and economic power they have and, second, the links that he traces between technologies of speed and acceleration and the accident. We suggest that Virilio's ideas on this invite and deserve a closer ethnographic scrutiny than they have so far received, scrutiny that highlights the varied ways in which speed, acceleration and the accident are articulated in different cultural contexts. To this end we offer an investigation into the dromocratic condition, the violence of speed and the uses of accidents in Iceland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]