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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.
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 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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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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War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
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If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.
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Television can only destroy.
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