Paul Virilio
Paul Virilio
Paul Viriliois a French cultural theorist, urbanist, and "philosopher of speed". He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
CountryFrance
fall effectiveness grace
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 fall from grace.
military class knowing
All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don't recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness.
viruses
Images contaminate us like viruses.
distance liberty
To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.
names voice waiting
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 what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.
ifs
How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?
light world doe
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
winning matter messages
Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.
dream eye blind-spots
There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.
technology negativity progress
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 electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.