As I pointed out in The Art of the Motor and elsewhere, from now on we need two watches: a wristwatch to tell us what time it is and a GPS watch to tell us what space it is! Paul Virilio More Quotes by Paul Virilio More Quotes From Paul Virilio The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck. Paul Virilio ships invention inspirational ... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film. Paul Virilio film shadow war 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. Paul Virilio knowing real people The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art. Paul Virilio cinema museums art War is cinema, and cinema is war Paul Virilio cinema war While the human gaze becomes more and more fixed, losing some of its natural speed and sensitivity, photographic shots, on the contrary, become even faster. Paul Virilio speed losing natural Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances. Paul Virilio distance air water 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. Paul Virilio radio political space War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there. Paul Virilio university war Jean Baudrillard is a friend of mine, I do not agree with him on that one! For me, the significance of the war in Kosovo was that it was a war that moved into space. Paul Virilio significance space war There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy. Paul Virilio buddhist body mean The territorial body has been polluted by roads, elevators, etc. Similarly, our animal body starts being polluted. Ecology no longer deals with water, flora, wildlife and air only. It deals with the body itself as well. It is comparable with an invasion: technology is invading our body because of miniaturisation. Paul Virilio technology air animal Concepts are mental images. Paul Virilio concepts Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny - microtechnologies, all technologies can invade the body. These micro-machines will feed the body. Research is being conducted in order to create additional memory for instance. Paul Virilio technology powerful memories There cannot be an animal body without a territorial body: three bodies are grafted over each other: the territorial body - the planet, the social body - the couple, and the animal body - you and me. And technology splits this unity, leaving us without a sense of where we are. This, too, is de-realization. Paul Virilio technology couple animal For the time being, technologies are colonizing our body through implants. We started with human implants, but research leads us to microtechnological implants. Paul Virilio technology body research Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts. Paul Virilio concepts writing People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human being! The human being can now be changed into some kind of spectrum or ghost who has sex at a distance. That is really scary because what used to be the most intimate and the most important relationship to reality is being split. This is no simulation but the coexistence of two separate worlds. Paul Virilio distance fun sex In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions. Paul Virilio technology two order I repeat what I suggest in my book [ Strategie de la deception]. The first deterrence, nuclear deterrence, is presently being superseded by the second deterrence: a type of deterrence based on what I call 'the information bomb' associated with the new weaponry of information and communications technologies. Paul Virilio communication technology book
