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Paul Virilio (French: [viʁiljo]; born 4 January 1932) is a French cultural theorist, urbanist, and aesthetic philosopher. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military.

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Concepts are mental images.

Concepts, Images, Mental

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.

Gps, Order, Able, Proposed, American, Surprising

The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man.

Men, Possible, Problem, Reality, True

I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).

Book, Concerned, Entitled, Ideas, Movement

The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind. . . as if we were God.

Technology, Reality, Attempting, Make, God

As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.

Economy, Long, Political, Real, Time

The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In WWII,] the worst cases of collaboration weren't among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.

Apathy, Knowing, Militia, People, Real, Wwii

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Becomes, Doe, Light, Speed, World

Cyberspace is acting like God and deals with the idea of God who is, sees and hears everything.

Acting, Cyberspace, Deals, God, Ideas, Like

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

Reality, Light, World, Illuminates, Gave

In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.

Events, Gain, Image, Political, Space

Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts.

Concepts, Descriptive, Images, Possible, Writing

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

Cnn, Gulf, Occur, Space, War

Video is originally a de-corporation, a disqualification of the sensorial organs which are replaced by machines. The eye and the hand are replaced by the data glove, the body is replaced by a data suit, sex is replaced by cybersex. All the qualities of the body are transferred to the machine.

Eye, Hands, Machine, Sex, Transferred

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

Mad, Person, Phenomenon, Real, Way, Wound

France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air.

Air, Blockade, Maritime, Sea, Waged, War

Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

Light, Speed, Technologies, Technology, Today

Television can only destroy.

Destroy, Television

The high level of the technologies used during the Gulf War makes this conflict quite unique, but the very process of de-realization of the war started in 1945. War occured in Kuwait, but it also occured on the screens of the entire world. The site of defeat or victory was not the ground, but the screen.

Defeat, Occured, Screens, Technology, Unique, War

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. . . Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

Negativity, Progress, Same, Ship, Technology

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