Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The simulator is an object in itself, which is different from televison and leads to cyberspace. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient… — 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
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 Image
I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who… — 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
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
I don't believe in simulationism, I believe that the word is already old-fashioned. As I see it, new technologies are substituting a… — 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
