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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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Paul Virilio
Age: 86 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 4
Died: 2018
Died: September 10
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Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.
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Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.
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Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.
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Television can only destroy.
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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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I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.
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War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
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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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Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.
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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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The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.
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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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Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.
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Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.
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I could give examples of cabinet ministers, including defence ministers, who have no technological culture at all. In other words, what I am suggesting is that the hype generated by the publicity around the Internet and so on is not counter balanced by a political intelligence that is based on a technological culture.
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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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Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.
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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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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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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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