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.
Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space. - Paul Virilio
Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.
- Paul Virilio
Look at the Intifadah in Jerusalem. One cannot understand that phenomenon, a phenomenon where people, often very young boys, are successfully harassi… - Paul Virilio
Look at the Intifadah in Jerusalem. One cannot understand that phenomenon, a phenomenon where people, often very young boys, are successfully harassi…
How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now? - Paul Virilio
How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?
To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down. - Paul Virilio
To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.
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, … - Paul Virilio
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, …
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… - Paul Virilio
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…
Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape. - Paul Virilio
Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.
Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the information… - Paul Virilio
Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the information…
Virtuality will destroy reality. - Paul Virilio
Virtuality will destroy reality.
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