Books Quotes by Paul Virilio

“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

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

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

... 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

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

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

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

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

The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God.

— Paul Virilio

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

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

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

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

— Paul Virilio

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

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