Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In this way, history now inscribes itself in real time, in the 'live', in the realm of interactivity. Consequently, history no longer… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
If we look at the Gulf War, the same is also true. Indeed, my work on the logistics of perception and the… — 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
To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who… — 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
![“The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII,] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a…” quote by Paul Virilio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46f/paul-virilio-2130_apathy_the-thing-about-collaborators-is-that-yo_2238650.png)
