The information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In the very near future, and I stress this important point, it will no longer be war that is the continuation of… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“It is, in fact, impossible clearly to distinguish economic war from information war, since each involves the same hegemonic ambition of making commercial and… — Paul Virilio Copy Share
There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing… — Paul Virilio Copy Share
There cannot be an animal body without a territorial body: three bodies are grafted over each other: the territorial body - the planet, the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share
... 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. — Paul Virilio Copy Share
GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life. — Paul Virilio Copy Share
The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN… — Paul Virilio Copy Share
The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to… — Paul Virilio Copy Share
What happened in Kosovo was the exact reversal of what happened in 'Fortress Europe' in 1943-45. Let me explain. Air Marshall 'Bomber' Harris used… — Paul Virilio Copy Share
The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God. — Paul Virilio Copy Share
There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind. — Paul Virilio Copy Share
I am of course thinking here about new planes such as the Sukhois. There is very little discussion about such developments but, for me,… — Paul Virilio Copy Share
Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving 'automated war'… — Paul Virilio Copy Share
The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to cyberspace, that… — Paul Virilio Copy Share
These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes… — Paul Virilio Copy Share
