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
The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual… — 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
Indeed, the truth, the reality of the Kosovo War, was actually hidden behind all the 'humanitarian' faces. — 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
Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art 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
I don't believe in simulationism, I believe that the word is already old-fashioned. As I see it, new technologies are substituting a… — 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
People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient… — 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
I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one… — 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
