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Paul Virilio
Age: 86 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 4
Died: 2018
Died: September 10
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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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The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.
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Television can only destroy.
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Video is originally a de-corporation, a disqualification of the sensorial organs which are replaced by machines. The eye and the hand are replaced by the data glove, the body is replaced by a data suit, sex is replaced by cybersex. All the qualities of the body are transferred to the machine.
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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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The field of vision is comparable, for me, to the terrain of an archaeological dig. To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.
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I don't believe in simulationism, I believe that the word is already old-fashioned. As I see it, new technologies are substituting a virtual reality for an actual reality. And this is more than a phase: it's a definite change.
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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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Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.
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However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent to the birth of a new type of flotilla, a home fleet, of a new type of naval power, but in orbital space!
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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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Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car.
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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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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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The research on cyberspace is a quest for God. To be God. To be here and there.
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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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Despite the economic disaster that is Russia, there are still air shows taking place in the country.
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Whoever controls the territory possesses it.
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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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