Television Quotes by Paul Virilio

8 Television quotes by Paul Virilio

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Virilio’s eight statements distill his theory of acceleration into a quick commentary on television, ideal for a fast read on media’s rapid pace.

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The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art…

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The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to…

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A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television.

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Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.

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Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted…

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Television can only destroy.

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I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one…

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Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents.

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... 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.

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The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God.

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There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.

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I am of course thinking here about new planes such as the Sukhois. There is very little discussion about such developments but, for me,…

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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'…

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How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

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These new technologies try to make virtual reality more powerful than actual reality, which is the true accident. The day when virtual reality becomes…

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