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War Quotes by Paul Virilio

47 War quotes by Paul Virilio

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A Hiroshima flash is described as a shadow that turned every surface into a record of war. The quotes argue that modern war blurs economic, information, and military lines, with GPS, media, and electromagnetic space reshaping battles. They claim war now lives in global time and in the sky.

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War is cinema, and cinema is war

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War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

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I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

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If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the…

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All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents.

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Today, the army only occupies the territory once the war is over.

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GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social…

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Indeed, the truth, the reality of the Kosovo War, was actually hidden behind all the 'humanitarian' faces.

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I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.

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For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.

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While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and,…

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Thus it is no longer a Caesar or a Napoleon who decides on the fate of any particular war but a piece…

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I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that…

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“An old Japanese friend recently confided to me: ' I can't forgive to americans for the fact that Hiroshima wasn't an act…

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Nowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities.

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Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and…

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As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the…

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France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So,…

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World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War…

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There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers…

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What I also discovered was that, during the War, the whole of Europe had become a fortress. And thus I saw to…

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The high level of the technologies used during the Gulf War makes this conflict quite unique, but the very process of de-realization…

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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…

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What happened in Kosovo was the exact reversal of what happened in 'Fortress Europe' in 1943-45. Let me explain. Air Marshall 'Bomber'…

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If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation…

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If we look at the Gulf War, the same is also true. Indeed, my work on the logistics of perception and the…

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The automation of warfare has, then, come a long way since the Persian Gulf War of 1991.

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Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema.

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The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks…

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There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN…

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However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent…

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I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not…

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For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense…

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It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed…

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In the very near future, and I stress this important point, it will no longer be war that is the continuation of…

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“It is, in fact, impossible clearly to distinguish economic war from information war, since each involves the same hegemonic ambition of making…

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The research on vision machines was mainly conducted at the Stanford Research Institute in the US. So, we can say that the…

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Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after…

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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…

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Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the…

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“It is, in fact, impossible clearly to distinguish economic war from information war, since each involves the same hegemonic ambition of making commercial and…

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There cannot be an animal body without a territorial body: three bodies are grafted over each other: the territorial body - the planet, the…

... 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.

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN…

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…

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…

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

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

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

Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving 'automated war'…

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

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

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