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As I said back in 1984, the idea of logistics is not only about oil, about ammunitions and supplies but also about images.
Paul Virilio
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Paul Virilio
Age: 86 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 4
Died: 2018
Died: September 10
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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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Whoever controls the territory possesses it.
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Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.
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There can be no doubt about this. It even held true for the soldiers involved in the Kosovo War. For the soldiers stayed mostly in their barracks! In this way, polar inertia has truly become a mass phenomenon. And not only for the TV audiences watching the war at home but also for the army that watches the battle from the barracks.
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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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Concepts are mental images.
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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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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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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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For the US, GPS are a form of sovereignty! It is hardly surprising, then, that the EU has proposed its own GPS in order to be able to localize and to compete with the American GPS.
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I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.
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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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Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.
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Television exposes the world to the accident. The world is exposed to accidents through television.
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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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I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand.
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