Television is a media of crisis, which means that television is a media of accidents. Paul Virilio More Quotes by Paul Virilio More Quotes From Paul Virilio Many people question their religious identity today, not necessarily by thinking of converting to Judaism or to Islam: it's just that technologies seriously challenge the status of the human being. All technologies converge toward the same spot, they all lead to a Deus ex Machina, a machine-God. Paul Virilio technologyreligiousthinking People agree to say that it is rationality and science which have eliminated what is called magic and religion. But ultimately, the ironic outcome of this techno-scientific development is a renewed need for the idea of God. Paul Virilio ironicpeopleideas All future wars, all future accidents will be live wars and live accidents. Paul Virilio accidentswar 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. Paul Virilio cnnspacewar If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation have been used for war. For example, video was created after the Second World War in order to radio-control planes and aircraft carriers. Thus video came with the war. It took twenty years before it became a means of expression for artists. Paul Virilio militarywarmoving The research on cyberspace is a quest for God. To be God. To be here and there. Paul Virilio cyberspacehere-and-thereresearch Art has become more than painting, sculpture or music: art is more than Van Gogh painting a landscape or Wagner composing an opera. The whole of reality itself has become the object of art. Paul Virilio sculpturerealityart I could give examples of cabinet ministers, including defence ministers, who have no technological culture at all. In other words, what I am suggesting is that the hype generated by the publicity around the Internet and so on is not counter balanced by a political intelligence that is based on a technological culture. Paul Virilio hypepoliticalgiving Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman. Paul Virilio menworld Let us start with the title of War and Cinema. The important part of the title is not War and Cinema. Paul Virilio titlesimportantwar I am of course thinking here about new planes such as the Sukhois. There is very little discussion about such developments but, for me, I am constantly astonished by the current developments within the Russian airforce. Paul Virilio developmentlittlesthinking What will prevail is this will to reduce the world to the point where one could possess it. All military technologies reduce the world to nothing. And since military technologies are advanced technologies, what they actually sketch today is the future of the civil realm. Paul Virilio technologymilitaryworld In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct. For instance, almost every conflict since then has involved the logistics of perception, including the war in Lebanon, where Israel made use of cheap drones in order to track Yasser Arafat with the aim of killing him. Paul Virilio warorderbook Look at the US, look at Russia. Both of these countries are immense geographical territories. But, nowadays, immense territories amount to nothing! Paul Virilio russiacountrylooks To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense. Paul Virilio bodymind To a materialist, matter is essential: a stone is a stone, a mountain is a mountain, water is water and earth is earth. As far as I am concerned, I am a materialist of the body, which means that the body is the basis of all my work. Paul Virilio mountainwatermean Indeed, the truth, the reality of the Kosovo War, was actually hidden behind all the 'humanitarian' faces. Paul Virilio faceswarreality I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'. Paul Virilio researchwarbook I believe that the military-industrial complex is more important than ever. This is because the war in Kosovo gave fresh impetus not to the military-industrial complex but to the military-scientific complex. You can see this in China. Paul Virilio militarywarbelieve I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide. Paul Virilio racewarbelieve
