Birth: January 4, 1932
The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident..
Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of real….
Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the information….
Look at the Intifadah in Jerusalem. One cannot understand that phenomenon, a phenomenon where people, often very young boys, are successfully harassi….
The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-rea….
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, ….
To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down..
How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?.
Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space..
Virtuality will destroy reality..
Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape..
The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is als….
In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct. For instance, almost every conf….
These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality become….
Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation..
I could give examples of cabinet ministers, including defence ministers, who have no technological culture at all. In other words, what I am suggesti….
As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of spe….
Video is originally a de-corporation, a disqualification of the sensorial organs which are replaced by machines. The eye and the hand are replaced by….
Thus it is no longer a Caesar or a Napoleon who decides on the fate of any particular war but a piece of software! In short, the political intelligen….
People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human being! The human being can now be ch….
The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe..