Tag: virilio
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Paul Virilio
A conversation with Caroline Dumoucel Originally posted on Vice.com, September 2, 2010. Translated By Pauline Eiferman. Cultural theorist Paul Virilio has been repeating essentially the same thing, packed inside different specifics at different times, over and over for the past 30 years. Maybe it’s time for everybody—not just French people and college students—to start listening…
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The Archive and the Virus: The Ruin of Military Information in Real Time
On Baudrillard, Virilio, War, and Speed The spectacular event of the Gulf War in 1991 is entirely a non-event, fitting for a non-war. The Gulf War was a programmed operation that seemed to showcase the new possibilities of military technology, and yet real ground war was inconsequential to the virtual victory that was achieved. Baudrillard…
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