The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary,… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“[Speed] ostensibly perverts the illusory order of normal perception, the order of arrival of information. What could have seemed simultaneous is diversified… — 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
![“[Speed] ostensibly perverts the illusory order of normal perception, the order of arrival of information. What could have seemed simultaneous is diversified and decomposes. With speed, the world keeps on coming at us, to the detriment of the object, which is itself now assimilated to the sending…” quote by Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cea/paul-virilio-2130_speed_speed-ostensibly-perverts-the-illusory-o_627039.jpg)
