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Examining how the `here and now' of space, territory, the body, are being redefined by new technologies and how this undoes simplistic versions of the...
Selected Interviews
Edited by one of the leading Virilio authority's, this book offers the reader a guide through Virilio's work. Using the interview form, Virilio speaks...
Virilio defines the ways in which postindustrial science has merged with out-and-out hyperterrorism to threaten the foundations of Greco-Roman, Judeo-...
The Logistics of Perception
Reveals the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema....
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"One day the day will come when the day will not come." Bleak, but passionately political in its analysis of the social destruction wrought by modern ...
Focusing on the logistics of perception, this title introduces the author's understanding of 'picnolepsy' - the epileptic state of consciousness produ...
Written with his characteristic flair, Virillo's latest book is a trenchant denunciation of the Kosovo war in which he successfully unites theory with...
"Civilization or the militarization of science?" With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores th...
Collected together in this reader, are extracts of Virilio's work from the entire range of his career. Each extract is prefaced by a bibliographical a...
Virilio and Lotringer revisit their prescient book on the invisible war waged by technology against humanity since World War II. In June 2007, Paul Vi...
The Art of the Motor includes analyses of such recent developments as nanotechnology and virtual reality. It conjures a world in which information is ...
How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress that literally leaves us out of its equations? What if progress...
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The celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he w...
An Essay in Dromoscopy
Negative Horizon is Paul Virilio's most original and unified exploration of the key themes and ideas running through his work and thought. Provocative...
"The most perverse perversions are not always those one would expect. At once clinical, bewildering, hilarious and deeply poignant, Overexposed shows ...
War at the Speed of Light
Desert Screen is a vision of future war. Paul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning point in history, the last industrial and the first informa...
This title puts art back where it matters: at the center of politics...
The "genetic bomb" marks a turn in the history of humanity. The accident is a new form of warfare. It is replacing revolution and war. Sarajevo trigge...
Paul Virilio is one of contemporary continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices. His vision of the impact of modern technology...
Out of print for almost a decade, we are thrilled to bring back one of our most requested hard-to-find titlesphilosopher and cultural theorist Paul Vi...
"Ecological catastrophes are ony terrifying for civilians. For the military, they are but a simulation of chaos, an opportunity to justify an art of w...
Writer and critic Paul Virilio is considered to be one of the most important and incisive contemporary critics of technology and its moral, political ...
First English language collection of the writing of French social critic, Paul Virilio. This volume represents his most important work, including five...
With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution. Speed and Politics (first published in ...
An Interview by Philippe Petit
Summarizes Virilio's speculations about the impact that accidents will have on the planet now that we operate on one-world time. Based upon a 1996 con...
On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a se...
An Essay on Dromology
With this book Paul Virilio inaugurated the new science whose object of study is the "dromocratic" revolution....
A new interview with the philosopher of speed, addressing the ways in which technology is utilized in synchronizing mass emotions. We are living under...
‘The world of the future will be a tighter and tighter struggle against the limits of our intelligence’, announced Norbert Wiener... On top of suc...
Stop-Eject
With around 645 million people expected to be displaced Ð by wars and other catastrophes Ð by 2050, Virilio begins The Futurism of the Instant by lo...
Written in the shadow of war, City of Panic argues that cities everywhere have been the dedicated target of political and technological terror through...
Stop Eject
Raymond Depardon in conversation with philosopher Paul Virilio about the notions of homeland and rootedness Filmmaker Raymond Depardon and eminent phi...
Texts and Photos
Synthèse exemplaire des recherches de Claude Parent et de Paul Virilio au sein du groupe Architecture Principe, Sainte-Bernadette-du-Banlay, bâtie e...
Réflexion sur le visible, le mouvement, la vitesse et le temps, bref sur la réalité " comme elle va ", Esthétique de la disparition bouleverse nos...
Here as Virilio states, "all one can do is guess." But Virilio's position is not one of pure guessery. His extrapolationist position against his delir...