Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary,… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space. — 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
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
As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. — 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
