Way Quotes by Paul Virilio

9 Way quotes by Paul Virilio

Virilio’s take on a way examines speed, technology, and perception, each sentence a sharp analytical bite. This short batch of nine quotes offers a rapid entry into his thought‑provoking, often unsettling, perspective.

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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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In this way, history now inscribes itself in real time, in the 'live', in the realm of interactivity. Consequently, history no longer…

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In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is…

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In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.

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For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA).…

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In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct.…

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Let us put it this way, techno-scientific intelligence is presently insufficiently spread among society at large to enable us to interpret the…

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It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons.…

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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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“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 is a French expression that says: to be exposed to an accident, to cross a street without looking at the cars means exposing…

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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…

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

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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 to CNN…

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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 is to…

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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' Harris used…

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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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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…

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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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