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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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I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse.
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For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us consider the situation: a person videos Rodney King being beaten up by the cops. That person then sends in the footage to the TV station. Within hours riots flare up in the city!
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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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To regain our liberty (and our distance), we must slow the images down.
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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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The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.
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Concepts are mental images.
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To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense.
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Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.
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Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.
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Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art.
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