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
The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
As I pointed out in The Art of the Motor and elsewhere, from now on we need two watches: a wristwatch to… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I have said many times before, interactivity is the equivalent of radioactivity. For interactivity effects a kind of disintegration, a kind of… — 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
Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
For the time being, technologies are colonizing our body through implants. We started with human implants, but research leads us to microtechnological… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In this way, history now inscribes itself in real time, in the 'live', in the realm of interactivity. Consequently, history no longer… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Of course, one of the most disturbing features is the fact that while we have had roughly a ten year pause in… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the… — 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
The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the… — 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
“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
