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Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive they can be concepts.

Paul Virilio

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Paul Virilio
Age: 86 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 4
Died: 2018
Died: September 10
Architect
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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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What will prevail is this will to reduce the world to the point where one could possess it. All military technologies reduce the world to nothing. And since military technologies are advanced technologies, what they actually sketch today is the future of the civil realm.
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Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.
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I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).
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In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.
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I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.
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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.
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In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.
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As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the Second World War. I was 7-13 years old during the War and did not really internalise its significance.
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Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.
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Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.
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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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There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: Every body deserves mercy. That means that every body is holy.
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Despite the economic disaster that is Russia, there are still air shows taking place in the country.
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Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.
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I have said many times before, interactivity is the equivalent of radioactivity. For interactivity effects a kind of disintegration, a kind of rupture.
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All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents.
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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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