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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
What I also discovered was that, during the War, the whole of Europe had become a fortress. And thus I saw to… — 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
The high level of the technologies used during the Gulf War makes this conflict quite unique, but the very process of de-realization… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense… — 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
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
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
Some of the most dramatic consequences of the Kosovo war are linked to the resumption of the arms race and the suicidal… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct.… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons.… — 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
The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991. — 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
“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
