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Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.
Paul Virilio
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Paul Virilio
Age: 86 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 4
Died: 2018
Died: September 10
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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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Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.
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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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Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.
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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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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 regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.
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GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.
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For the time being, technologies are colonizing our body through implants. We started with human implants, but research leads us to microtechnological implants.
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Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.
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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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Television can only destroy.
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Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, but more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
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The body has a dimension of simulation. The learning process, for instance: when one learns how to drive a car or a van, once in the van, one feels completely lost. But then, once you have learnt how to drive, the whole van is in your body. It is integrated into your body.
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There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.
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Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.
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Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after the War was over that I saw the sea for the first time, in the vicinity of St Nazaire. It was there that I discovered the bunkers.
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Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.
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