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Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.
Paul Virilio
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Paul Virilio
Age: 86 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 4
Died: 2018
Died: September 10
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If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.
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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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World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War Two was quite different from World War One which was geographically limited to Europe. But in the case of the Gulf War, we are dealing with a war which is extremely local in space, but global in time, since it is the first 'live' war.
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For me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.
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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.
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Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.
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