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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.” quote by Paul Virilio — Download Open image

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

Paul Virilio

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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…

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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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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 to say that 'Fortress Europe' was a fortress without a roof, since the Allies had air supremacy. Now, if we look at the Kosovo War, what do we see? We see a fortress without walls …

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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' and 'war-at-a-distance' is also terribly weak in the face of terrorism. For instance, in such situations, any individual who decides to place or throw a bomb can simply walk away. He or she has the freedom…

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I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty.

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The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings…

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