Quote

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

Paul Virilio

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paul Virilio
Age: 86 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 4
Died: 2018
Died: September 10
Architect
Art Theorist
Exhibition Curator
Painter
Philosopher
Photographer
Sociologist
Urban Planner
Writer
Paris
France
Proceeded
University
War
Everything

More quotes by Paul Virilio

Image
Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.
Paul Virilio
Image
If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.
Paul Virilio
Image
Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.
Paul Virilio
Image
To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.
Paul Virilio
Image
GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.
Paul Virilio
Image
There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: Every body deserves mercy. That means that every body is holy.
Paul Virilio
Image
As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.
Paul Virilio
Image
Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.
Paul Virilio
Image
Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.
Paul Virilio
Image
France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air.
Paul Virilio
Image
In the very near future, and I stress this important point, 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' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
Paul Virilio
Image
To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense.
Paul Virilio
Image
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' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
Paul Virilio
Image
The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.
Paul Virilio
Image
Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.
Paul Virilio
Image
For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.
Paul Virilio
Image
... 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.
Paul Virilio
Image
However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent to the birth of a new type of flotilla, a home fleet, of a new type of naval power, but in orbital space!
Paul Virilio
Image
Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space.
Paul Virilio
Image
The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.
Paul Virilio