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> [Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving 'automated war' and 'war-at-a-distance' is also terribly weak in the face of terrorism. For instance, in such situations,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/moreover-i-would-like-to-say-that-the-sort-of-polar-inertia-we/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/)

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> [There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/there-can-be-no-doubt-about-this-it-even-held-true-for-the-soldiers/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/)

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## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/it-is-in-fact-impossible-clearly-to-distinguish-economic-war-from/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/there-is-a-french-expression-that-says-to-be-exposed-to-an-accident/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/there-cannot-be-an-animal-body-without-a-territorial-body-three/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/the-blinding-hiroshima-flash-literally-photographed-the-shadow-cast/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/gps-not-only-played-a-large-and-delocalizing-role-in-the-war-in/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/the-gulf-war-may-not-have-occurred-in-the-actual-global-space-but-it/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/the-cinema-was-certainly-an-art-but-television-can-t-be-because-it-is/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/what-happened-in-kosovo-was-the-exact-reversal-of-what-happened-in/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/)

> [The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/the-technologies-of-virtual-reality-are-attempting-to-make-us-see/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/there-are-eyes-everywhere-no-blind-spot-left-what-shall-we-dream-of/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/i-am-of-course-thinking-here-about-new-planes-such-as-the-sukhois/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/moreover-i-would-like-to-say-that-the-sort-of-polar-inertia-we/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/)

> [How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/how-can-we-live-if-there-is-no-more-here-and-everything-is-now/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/the-simulator-is-the-stage-in-between-television-and-virtual-reality/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-virilio/these-new-technologies-try-to-make-virtual-reality-more-powerful-than/)

[Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-virilio/)

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