There is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In the very near future, and I stress this important point, it will no longer be war that is the continuation of… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
When I say: "I'm looking at you, I can see you", that means: "I can see you because I can't see what… — 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
There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
To a materialist, matter is essential: a stone is a stone, a mountain is a mountain, water is water and earth is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
... 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image