Paul Virilio

What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? Well dream of being blind.

— Paul Virilio

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

— Paul Virilio

Despite the economic disaster that is Russia, there are still air shows taking place in the country.

— Paul Virilio

The simulator is an object in itself, which is different from televison and leads to cyberspace.

— Paul Virilio

What brought me to Christianity is Incarnation, not Ressurection.

— Paul Virilio

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

— Paul Virilio

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

— Paul Virilio

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

— Paul Virilio

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social…

— Paul Virilio

I have said many times before, interactivity is the equivalent of radioactivity. For interactivity effects a kind of disintegration, a kind of…

— Paul Virilio

Let us put it this way, techno-scientific intelligence is presently insufficiently spread among society at large to enable us to interpret the…

— Paul Virilio

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

— Paul Virilio

As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of…

— Paul Virilio

Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory.

— Paul Virilio

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

“An old Japanese friend recently confided to me: ' I can't forgive to americans for the fact that Hiroshima wasn't an act…

— Paul Virilio

France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So,…

— Paul Virilio

In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the…

— Paul Virilio

Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops…

— Paul Virilio

I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that…

— Paul Virilio

There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers…

— Paul Virilio

What I also discovered was that, during the War, the whole of Europe had become a fortress. And thus I saw to…

— Paul Virilio

To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who…

— Paul Virilio

Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving…

— Paul Virilio

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the…

— Paul Virilio

For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed…

— Paul Virilio

In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

— Paul Virilio

Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities.

— Paul Virilio

Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and…

— Paul Virilio

There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars…

— Paul Virilio

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a…

— Paul Virilio

Look at the US, look at Russia. Both of these countries are immense geographical territories. But, nowadays, immense territories amount to nothing!

— Paul Virilio

While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and,…

— Paul Virilio

The media is more concerned with what we feel about the refugees and so on rather than what we think about them.

— Paul Virilio

Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an…

— Paul Virilio

Hence not only the crisis of geopolitics and geostrategy but also the shift towards the emergence and dominance of chronostrategy.

— Paul Virilio

While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary,…

— Paul Virilio

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is…

— Paul Virilio

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a…

— Paul Virilio

For the US, GPS are a form of sovereignty! It is hardly surprising, then, that the EU has proposed its own GPS…

— Paul Virilio