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

Paul Virilio

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Paul Virilio
Age: 86 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 4
Died: 2018
Died: September 10
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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!
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The research on cyberspace is a quest for God. To be God. To be here and there.
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Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.
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Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.
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From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye's function being the function of a weapon.
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The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.
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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.
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The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.
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Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive they can be concepts.
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To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.
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I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.
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To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense.
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To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.
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I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.
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Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.
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Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.
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Earth is already being integrated into the Pentagon, and the man in the Pentagon is already piloting the world war - or the Gulf War - as if he were a captain whose huge boat would have become his own body. Thus the body simulates the relationship to the world.
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For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.
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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, I am constantly astonished by the current developments within the Russian airforce.
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