All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents. — 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… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident. — 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
I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide. — 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… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“An old Japanese friend recently confided to me: ' I can't forgive to americans for the fact that Hiroshima wasn't an act… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Thus it is no longer a Caesar or a Napoleon who decides on the fate of any particular war but a piece… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and,… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not… — 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
If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers… — 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… — 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'… — 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
For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA).… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent… — 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… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The research on vision machines was mainly conducted at the Stanford Research Institute in the US. So, we can say that the… — 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… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In the very near future, and I stress this important point, it will no longer be war that is the continuation of… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Earth is already being integrated into the Pentagon, and the man in the Pentagon is already piloting the world war - or… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So,… — 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