What is accidented is reality. Paul Virilio More Quotes by Paul Virilio More Quotes From Paul Virilio Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient. Paul Virilio circles government culture Art is alive because it is mortal. Paul Virilio art-is alive art Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory. Paul Virilio impact territory research However, the Kosovo War took place in orbital space. In other words, war now takes place in 'aero-electro-magnetic space'. It is equivalent to the birth of a new type of flotilla, a home fleet, of a new type of naval power, but in orbital space! Paul Virilio space home war A museum of accidents is needed. This museum already exists, it's television. Paul Virilio needed museums television I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation. Paul Virilio revolution research mean For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. Paul Virilio democracy example culture It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means. Paul Virilio politics war mean Now all we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car. Paul Virilio art-is car art Hence not only the crisis of geopolitics and geostrategy but also the shift towards the emergence and dominance of chronostrategy. Paul Virilio geopolitics dominance crisis To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute people speak their body language, it is true speaking rather than handicap, this is the first word and the first writing. Thus to me, the body is fundamental. Paul Virilio writing people thinking 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. Paul Virilio air sea war The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to cyberspace, that is to say, to the process because of which we now have two bottles instead of one. I might not see this virtual bottle, but I can feel it. It is settled within reality. This explains why the word virtual reality is more important than the word cyberspace, which is more poetic. Paul Virilio important two reality If we look at the Gulf War, the same is also true. Indeed, my work on the logistics of perception and the Gulf War was so accurate that I was even asked to discuss it with high-ranking French military officers. They asked me: 'how is it that you wrote that book in 1984 and now it's happening for real?' My answer was: 'the problem is not mine but yours: you have not been doing your job properly!' Paul Virilio real military jobs GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life. Paul Virilio gps roles war You cannot dissociate birth from death, creation from destruction, good from evil. Thus any art is a form of drama standing between the two extreme poles of birth and death, just like life is drama. This is not sad, because to be alive means to be mortal, to pass through. Paul Virilio drama mean art To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real. Paul Virilio technology real art For example, it was this pack of wolves that sparked off the Rodney King affair a few years ago in Los Angeles. Let us consider the situation: a person videos Rodney King being beaten up by the cops. That person then sends in the footage to the TV station. Within hours riots flare up in the city! Paul Virilio cities kings years For me, then, territory and movement are linked. For instance, territory is controlled by the movements of horsemen, of tanks, of planes, and so on. Paul Virilio tanks territory movement Let us put it this way, techno-scientific intelligence is presently insufficiently spread among society at large to enable us to interpret the sorts of techno-scientific advances that are taking shape today. Paul Virilio shapes today way
