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Paul Virilio

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January 01, 1932 in Paris, France

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Paul Virilio is a cultural theorist and urbanist. 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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Average rating: 3.95 · 1,013 ratings · 85 reviews · 71 distinct works

	The Information Bomb 3.78 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Open Sky by Paul Virilio, Julie Rose (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	War And Cinema: The Logistics Of Perception 3.99 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Pure War (Semiotext by Paul Virilio, Sylvère Lotringer 4.10 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Aesthetics of Disappearance by Paul Virilio, Philip Beitchman (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1980 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Art and Fear by Paul Virilio, Julie Rose (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Speed and Politics (Semiotext by Paul Virilio, Benjamin Bratton (Introduction) 4.02 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1977 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Ground Zero by Paul Virilio, Chris Turner (Translator) 3.49 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	A Landscape of Events by Paul Virilio, Julie Rose (Translator), Bernard Tschumi (Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Crepuscular Dawn (Semiotext by Paul Virilio, Sylvère Lotringer (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Paul Virilio

“There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.”
― Paul Virilio

tags: critical-theory , cultural-critique , urbanization

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“With the industrial proliferation of visual and audiovisual prostheses and unrestrained use of instantaneous-transmission equipment from earliest childhood onwards, we now routinely see the encoding of increasingly elaborate mental images together with a steady decline in retention rates and recall. In other words we are looking at the rapid collapse of mnemonic consolidation. This collapse seems only natural, if one remembers a contrario that seeing, and its spatio-temporal organization, precede gesture and speech and their coordination in knowing, recognizing, making known (as images of our thoughts), our thoughts themselves and cognitive functions, which are never ever passive.”
― Paul Virilio, The Vision Machine

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“How can we ultimately fail to twig that the apparent impiety of contemporary art is only ever the inverted image of sacred art, the reversal of the creator's initial question: why is there something instead of nothing?”
― Paul Virilio, Art and Fear

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