Paul Virilio

There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is…

— Paul Virilio

Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.

— Paul Virilio

I repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded…

— Paul Virilio

To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute…

— Paul Virilio

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

— Paul Virilio

For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside…

— Paul Virilio

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

— Paul Virilio

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

— Paul Virilio

In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the…

— Paul Virilio

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational…

— Paul Virilio

I don't believe in simulationism, I believe that the word is already old-fashioned. As I see it, new technologies are substituting a…

— Paul Virilio

The body has a dimension of simulation. The learning process, for instance: when one learns how to drive a car or a…

— Paul Virilio

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

— Paul Virilio

For me, then, territory and movement are linked. For instance, territory is controlled by the movements of horsemen, of tanks, of planes,…

— Paul Virilio

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

— Paul Virilio

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

— Paul Virilio

Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.

— Paul Virilio

Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.

— Paul Virilio

GPS are everywhere. They are in cars. They were even in the half-tracks that, initially at least, were going to make the…

— Paul Virilio

I have said many times before, interactivity is the equivalent of radioactivity. For interactivity effects a kind of disintegration, a kind of…

— Paul Virilio

I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.

— Paul Virilio

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

— Paul Virilio

The information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident.

— Paul Virilio

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

— Paul Virilio

The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In…

— Paul Virilio