books by Paul Virilio     books:       The Information Bomb (Radical Thinkers)3 reviews Paul Virilio Verso, 2006 technophobes unite! A unique mix of Situationism, postmodernism, and Luddism! (With a dose of Foucault and a left-wing Catholic streak?!) Virilio's staccato, rapid-fire assault mostly dispenses with conventional argument or exposition, but that's what makes him so bracing. It's a hail of neologisms, newspaper headlines, and quotes from contemporary politicos and ancient philosophers. The main thesis seems to be ...             Art as Far as the Eye Can See Paul Virilio Berg Publishers, 2007 Art used to be an engagement between the artist and materials, but now as art practices and mediums have changed, these materials have also changed. Where art used to talk of the aesthetics of disappearance, it must now confront the disappearance of the aesthetic. In the twenty-first century, the new battleground is art as light versus art as matter. In this work, author Paul Virilio argues that this change reflects how speed and politics have ...             City of Panic (Culture Machine) Paul Virilio Berg Publishers, 2007 Written in the shadow of war, City of Panic argues that cities everywhere have been the dedicated target of political and technological terror throughout the 20th century. The wanton erasure of the past, the construction of identikit places, the proliferation of gated-communities, the ever-widening net of surveillance, the privatization of what was public. In this globalized and militarized "everywhere," all citizens are becoming one ...             Bunker Archaeology Paul Virilio Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 Out of print for almost a decade we are thrilled to bring back one of our most requested hard-to-find titles?philosopher and cultural theorist Paul Virilio's Bunker Archeology. In 1994 we published the first English-language translation of the classic French edition of 1975 which accompanied an exhibition of Virilio's photographs at the Centre Pompidou. In Bunker Archeology urbanist Paul Virilio turns his attention?and camera?to the ominous ...             Open Sky (Radical Thinkers)2 reviews Paul Virilio Verso, 2008 His fears are our hopes... This is mostly a book on cyberculture. Its French title is _La Vitesse de libération_, which translates as "Escape Velocity". Hard luck: Mark Dery independently chose the same title for _his_ essay on cyberculture, so even though Virilio's opus predates Dery's, its translation must come out with a different title. I read it in French when it was published. As an avid reader of cyberculture, I ...             Art And Fear (Continuum Impacts) Paul Virilio Continuum, 2006 Paul Virilio is one of contemporary Continental thought's most original and provocative critical voices. His vision of the impact of modern technology on the contemporary global condition is powerful and disturbing, ranging over art, science, politics and warfare. In Art and Fear, Paul Virilio traces the twin development of art and science over the twentieth century. In his provocative and challenging vision, art and science vie with each ...             The Original Accident1 review Paul Virilio Polity, 2007 Speed and Destruction: Virilio's Work of Apocalypse This is a book about accidents and catastrophes. Virilio says that throughout the course of the twentieth century, man-made disasters have been gradually proliferating and gaining a sort of momentum. From the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, to the first great aviation disaster -- the exploding of the Hindenburg in 1937 -- and on down to Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the Space Shuttles, etc., ...             Speed and Politics (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)6 reviews Paul Virilio Semiotext(e), 2007 Slowly speeding "Speed and Politics" is an insightful post-modern examination into what I call 'exponential progress'. In one part, Virilio suggests that since society is increasingly less patient (mostly as a result of technology), people in general are less willing to spend the time to read or investigate their oppressive situations (probably because they were overly busy shopping and thinking about the next ...             Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy (Continuum Impacts)1 review Paul Virilio Continuum, 2008 Post-Structural Theory for the Crash Test Dummy If you enjoyed the movie "Crash," but didn't feel like you understood the message, here is a wonderful theoretical explanation for you. Negative Horizons examines the violence of speed. I would say that it's heavy theory that reads like a thriller. It was absolutely engaging and terrifying to read, especially while taking a airplane home from DC on a dark and stormy night.             Pure War (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)1 review Paul Virilio, Sylvère Lotringer Semiotext(e), 2008 Prophet of speed I think Virilio is one of the century's genuine original thinkers. More specifically, his thesis about speed and chrono-politics is a key explanation of the basic transformation of society under pressure from technology. Of course he is all over the place and hardly rigorous, but his shere intelligence makes him a 'must read' in my view. His ideas inspire more than educate, but he is worth ...             Crepuscular Dawn (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)1 review Paul Virilio Semiotext(e), 2002 Fabulous cover Book was great but I keep going back to the cover. Who says "you can't judge a book by its cover". Wow that photography is compelling. So fresh, so new. Who is the photographer???             War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception1 review Paul Virilio Verso, 1989 a short parallel history of war and cinema War and Cinema, violence and spectacle. Hitler watching "Gone with the Wind" with Lenni Reifenstahl and Albert Speer. A brilliant study full of intuition on the development of war technologies in 20th century and the way they were influencing and influenced by vision and perception technologies.             The Vision Machine (Perspectives) Paul Virilio Indiana University Press, 1994             Desert Screen: War at the Speed of Light (Continuum Impacts)2 reviews Paul Virilio Continuum, 2005 A War Without People In his Foreword to this book, Virilio draws a blackboard sketch for us of his basic historical metanarrative, namely, that he sees three distinct epochs of warfare: a prehistoric epoch of tactical war in which weapons of obstruction dominated, such as ramparts, bastions, armor and fortresses; a historical - strategic epoch in which weapons of destruction are predominant, such as lances, bows, ...             Lost Dimension Paul Virilio Semiotext(e), 1991 To read these five essays of 1983 is to begin to come to terms with the theoretical cataclysm of the present. In Lost Dimension , Paul Virilio considers the displacement of the concept of dimensional space by Einsteinian space/time as it is related to the transparent boundaries of the postmodern city and contemporary economy. Virilio imagines a coming world of interactive, informational networks offering a prison-house of illusionary ...             Ground Zero2 reviews Paul Virilio Verso, 2002 Dystopia USA Incomprehensible to most Americans, this expressionist poem explains why terrorism is the new world order; a brilliant analysis of the superpower syndrome, dirge for the global glutton. An apt companion work is Emmanuel Todd's L'Apres Empire, translation due February 2004.             The Aesthetics of Disappearance, New Edition (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) Paul Virilio Semiotext(e), 2009 Virilio himself referred to his 1980 work The Aesthetics of Disappearance as a "juncture" in his thinking, one at which he brought his focus onto the logistics of perception?a logistics he would soon come to refer to as the "vision machine." If Speed and Politics established Virilio as the inaugural?and still consummate?theorist of "dromology" (the theory of speed and the society it defines), The Aesthetics of Disappearance introduced his ...             The Accident of Art (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents) Sylvère Lotringer, Paul Virilio Semiotext(e), 2005 In this dialogue with Sylvè²¥ Lotringer, the prophet of speed argues that "the art of the motor" (electronics, computer, Internet, and so on) has surpassed the static nature of the visual arts. Digital technology has replaced the analogical, and art has become extra-retinal. Something has been lost in the arts of the twentieth century and their very success is their failure. But this critique is not a condemnation. On the contrary, an accident ...             James Turrell: The Other Horizon1 review Michael Rotondi, Daniel Birnbaum, ... Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2001 brilliant "The question is not what you look at, but what you SEE."- -H.D. Thoreau This quote from Thoreau aptly applies to the work of Flagstaff, AZ. artist James Turrell. Turrell has been fascinated all his life with the concept of light and its use in art and architecture. Add to this his notion that the individual should experience this art alone, embracing what the ...             Strategy of Deception (Radical Thinkers) Paul Virilio Verso, 2007 A vital philosophical examination of modern warfare in which the reality of battle is reduced to flickering images on a screen.              search for books accident, aesthetics, archaeology, cinema, continuum, crepuscular, culture, deception, dimension, disappearance, dromoscopy, edition, foreign, ground, horizon, impacts, information, logistics, machine, negative, original, perception, perspectives, politics, radical, screen, semiotext, strategy, thinkers, turrell books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen musical instruments: E-MU EM8666 Vintage X Bundle Soundset for Emulator X2/Proteus X2 we recommend Post-Structural Theory for the Crash Test Dummy leave a comment home  impressum - about us