Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape. — 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
Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
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
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 said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
What is going on now, or should happen in one or two generations, is the disintegration of the world. Real time 'live'… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Look at the Intifadah in Jerusalem. One cannot understand that phenomenon, a phenomenon where people, often very young boys, are successfully harassing… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
What will prevail is this will to reduce the world to the point where one could possess it. All military technologies reduce… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The high level of the technologies used during the Gulf War makes this conflict quite unique, but the very process of de-realization… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Thus it is no longer a Caesar or a Napoleon who decides on the fate of any particular war but a piece… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Earth is already being integrated into the Pentagon, and the man in the Pentagon is already piloting the world war - or… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human… — 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
