Paul Virilio
Paul Virilio
Paul Viriliois a French cultural theorist, urbanist, and "philosopher of speed". He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
CountryFrance
follows history landscape since
For God, history is a landscape of events. For Him, nothing really follows sequentially since everything is co-present.
real knowing people
The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII,] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.
war mean politics
It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
war shadow film
... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.
losing speed natural
While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster.
war university
War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
reality light world
Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.
together tribes regions
Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.
distance air water
Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.
inspirational ships invention
The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.
space political warfare
In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.
sides wealth speed
Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.
war cinema
War is cinema, and cinema is war
eye weapons balloons
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.