Paul Virilio Quotes

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• The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for…
• The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.
• Images contaminate us like viruses.
• When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent…
• There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.
• Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.
• War is cinema, and cinema is war
• Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.
• Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic…
• It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident'…
• The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
• War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
• What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? Well dream of being blind.

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