Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself. Paul Virilio More Quotes by Paul Virilio More Quotes From Paul Virilio The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world. Paul Virilio racismstupidmen Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation. Paul Virilio territorymovementlaw There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer bomb, which destroys the principle of reality itself - not the actual object - and rebuilds it, and finally the third bomb is the demographic one. Some experts have found out that in five thousand years from now, the weight of the population will be heavier than the weight of the planet. That means that humanity will constitute a planet of its own! Paul Virilio meanrealityyears Television can only destroy. Paul Virilio television It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons. What is clear to me, therefore, is that while the tragedy of war grinds on, the contemporary aesthetics of the tragedy seem not only confused but, in some way, suspicious. Paul Virilio skeletonsconfusedwar The information bomb gives rise to the integral and globally constituted accident. Paul Virilio bombsinformationgiving The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet. Paul Virilio importantearthmen The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe. Paul Virilio buildingbodysex I believe that philosophy is part of literature, and not the reverse. Paul Virilio literaturephilosophybelieve The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'. Paul Virilio stock-exchangeriskpeople Creation exists only in regard to destruction. Creation is against destruction. Paul Virilio regardcreationdestruction What is going on now, or should happen in one or two generations, is the disintegration of the world. Real time 'live' technologies, cyberreality, will permit the incorporation of the world within oneself. One will be able to read the entire world, just like during the Gulf War. And I will have become the world. The body of the world and my body will be one. Paul Virilio technologyrealwar I think that cinema and television have nothing in common. There is a breaking point between photography and cinema on the one hand and television and virtual reality on the other hand. Paul Virilio photographyrealitythinking Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and global surveillance is also the era of the integral accident. Paul Virilio surveillancewarfarebombs 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. Paul Virilio technologyuniquewar I don't believe in simulationism, I believe that the word is already old-fashioned. As I see it, new technologies are substituting a virtual reality for an actual reality. And this is more than a phase: it's a definite change. Paul Virilio technologybelievereality For the strategies of deception are concerned with deceiving an opponent through the logistics of perception. But these strategies are not merely aimed at the Serbs or the Iraqis but also at all those who might support [Slobodan] Milosevic or Saddam Hussein. Paul Virilio supportdeceptionperception Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control. Paul Virilio sovereigntyinherentterritory Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture. Paul Virilio resistancecultureideas I have said many times before, interactivity is the equivalent of radioactivity. For interactivity effects a kind of disintegration, a kind of rupture. Paul Virilio rupturekindsaid
