Quote

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

Paul Virilio

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paul Virilio
Age: 86 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 4
Died: 2018
Died: September 10
Architect
Art Theorist
Exhibition Curator
Painter
Philosopher
Photographer
Sociologist
Urban Planner
Writer
Paris
France
Cannot
Light
Without
Take
Globalization
Shape
Speed
Shapes

More quotes by Paul Virilio

Image
There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.
Paul Virilio
Image
GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.
Paul Virilio
Image
I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.
Paul Virilio
Image
Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.
Paul Virilio
Image
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'.
Paul Virilio
Image
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.
Paul Virilio
Image
Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.
Paul Virilio
Image
Hence not only the crisis of geopolitics and geostrategy but also the shift towards the emergence and dominance of chronostrategy.
Paul Virilio
Image
For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense it was a local war. But it was one that made use of all the power normally reserved for global war.
Paul Virilio
Image
Thus it is no longer a Caesar or a Napoleon who decides on the fate of any particular war but a piece of software! In short, the political intelligence of war and the political intelligence of society no longer penetrate the techno-scientific world.
Paul Virilio
Image
Concepts are mental images.
Paul Virilio
Image
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.
Paul Virilio
Image
Television was first conceived to be used as some kind of telescope, not for broadcasting. Originally, Sworkin, the inventor of television, wanted to settle cameras on rockets so that it would be possible to watch the sky.
Paul Virilio
Image
The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.
Paul Virilio
Image
The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.
Paul Virilio
Image
Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.
Paul Virilio
Image
Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.
Paul Virilio
Image
Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.
Paul Virilio
Image
One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!
Paul Virilio
Image
I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).
Paul Virilio