Paul Virilio is without doubt one of the most important and stimulating French cultural theorists writing this day. more and more hailed because the 'archaeologist of the future', Virilio is famous for his proclamation that the good judgment of ever expanding acceleration lies on the middle of the association and transformation of the modern world.
The first ebook to have enough money a safely serious evaluate of Virilio's cultural conception, it comprises an interview with Virilio; a lately translated instance of his paintings; and a decide upon bibliography of his writings. The commissioned contributions by means of best cultural and social theorists research Virilio's paintings from his early speculations on army and concrete area to his present writings on dromology, politics, new communications applied sciences, disappearance, and the fallout from 'the details bomb'.
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It is unavoidable. Ours are cinematic societies. They are not only societies of movement, but of the acceleration of that very movement. And hence, of the shortening of distances in terms of time, but, I would also add, of the relation to reality. It is thus simply impossible to ignore the theory of relativity. We're all going through the gates of relativity. It is well known that the theory of relativity is very poorly popularized, it is not at all well-understood by the general public. One cannot skip the theory of relativity for the mere reason that it is difficult to understand.
When transatlantic air services were invented, we incurred the loss of the ocean liners. This holds true in all possible realms. Foucault and Baudrillard JA: Much of your recent work is concerned with cyberspace and imaging technologies of various kinds such as VR. However, it appears to be less influenced by Jean Baudrillard's writings on the nature and impact of Simulations (1983) and 'hyperreality,' and more by Foucault's work on surveillance in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1977 [1975]).
JA: Can you recall why you felt it necessary to develop your own political perspective at that time? . PV: I feel that many of my contemporaries have totally blacked out the war from their minds. Many of them never experienced totalitarianism. I lived through that experience. With a communist father, who was Italian to boot, we had to make our escape from totalitarianism, from Nazism and so on. It was no joke to be both communist and Italian during the Second World War (in occupied France). This meant that I never could get involved in something that appeared to me, right from the beginning, to be a totalitarian phenomenon.