From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye's function being the function of a weapon.
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…
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…
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.
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?
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, …
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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