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
In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
As I pointed out in The Art of the Motor and elsewhere, from now on we need two watches: a wristwatch to… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War… — 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
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
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
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
“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
