We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? ….

In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the obj….

For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident..

The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real..

For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aim….

Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts..

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media..

For me, then, territory and movement are linked. For instance, territory is controlled by the movements of horsemen, of tanks, of planes, and so on..

Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after the War was over that I sa….

The body has a dimension of simulation. The learning process, for instance: when one learns how to drive a car or a van, once in the van, one feels c….

Television can only destroy..

Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient..

I have said many times before, interactivity is the equivalent of radioactivity. For interactivity effects a kind of disintegration, a kind of ruptur….

GPS are everywhere. They are in cars. They were even in the half-tracks that, initially at least, were going to make the ground invasion in Kosovo po….

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life..

May I remind you that the bombs that were dropped by the B-2 plane on the Chinese embassy or at least that is what we were told were GPS bombs. And….

For all the sophistication of GPS, there still remain numerous problems with their use. The most obvious problem in this context is the problem of la….

Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops cannot p….

I repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the secon….

A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television..

What will prevail is this will to reduce the world to the point where one could possess it. All military technologies reduce the world to nothing. An….