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	Paul Virilio (1932 - )
		Virilio argues that the traditional feudal fortified city disappeared because of the increasing sophistication of weapons and possibilities for warfare.
		Paul Virilio (born 1932 in Paris) is a cultural theorist who is most well-known for his writings about the military in relation to architecture, culture and history.
		Increasingly hailed as the 'archaeologist of the future' and the inventor of the concept of `dromology', Virilio is noted for his proclamation that the logic of ever increasing acceleration lies at the heart of the organization and transformation of the contemporary world.
	www.jahsonic.com /PaulVirilio.html (1416 words)

	Paul Virilio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Virilio (born 1932 in Paris) is a cultural theorist.
		Paul Virilio was born in Paris in 1932.
		Virilio developed what he calls the 'war model' of the modern city and of human society in general and is the inventor of the term 'dromology', meaning the logic of speed that is the foundation of technological society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Virilio (1073 words)

	Paul Virilio - Philosopher - Biography
		Paul Virilio was born in Paris in 1932 to a Breton mother and an Italian Communist father.
		According to Virilio, the fortified city of the feudal period was a stationary and generally unassailable 'war machine' coupled to an attempt to modulate the circulation and the momentum of the movements of the urban masses.
		Virilio suggests that political economy cannot be subsumed by the political economy of wealth, with a comprehension of the management of the economy of the state being its general aim.
	www.egs.edu /resources/virilio.html (1157 words)

	Kellner on Virilio
		Virilio argues that developments in science and technology are thus obliterating both modern and common sense views of the world, and producing new objects and spaces that cannot be explained by modern conceptual schemes.
		In short, Virilio is mourning the loss of the object of ocular perception in the emergent forms of technological vision and representation, the displacement of the dimension of direct observation and common sense, and thus the loss of the materiality and concreteness of the objects of perception, constituting the realm of appearance and lived experience.
		Virilio's comments here, however, are somewhat anecdotal and serve more as metaphorical and rhetorical devices to dramatize the strangeness of outer space travel and the displacement of our scientific and conceptual schemes in this new dimension than a serious scrutiny of the effects of space flight on human beings.
	www.film-philosophy.com /vol2-1998/n30kellner (2886 words)

	Theory, Culture & Society - Abstracts: 16(5-6) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Paul Virilio is one of the most prolific and penetrating critics of the drama of technology in the contemporary era, especially military technology, technologies of representation, computer and information technologies, and biotechnology.
		Virilio's project is an ongoing attempt to theorize cultural, political, military and techno-scientific developments in terms both of the speed at which those developments occur and the different speeds ('metabolic' and 'vehicular') which they impose on the modes and forms of existence.
		Virilio's engagement with the aporia of speed is necessarily an engagement with the future, for his effort to maintain a critical discourse at the 'leading edge' must encounter the mainstream discourses of a 'future perfect' that accompany, promote and even generate techno-scientific progress.
	tcs.ntu.ac.uk /tcs/abstracts/16(5-6).html (1392 words)

	paul virilio ... at MSN Shopping
		For Virilio, the foremost philosopher of speed, the "technical surprise" of World War I was the discovery that the wartime economy could not be sustained unless it was continued in peacetime.
		As a consequence, the distinction between war and peace ceased to apply, inaugurating the military-industrial complex and the militarization of science itself.Every new invention casts a long shadow that we are generally unwilling to acknowledge in the name of progress: the invention of automobiles inaugurated car-crashes; the invention of nuclear energy, Hiroshima and Tchernobyl.
		Paul Virilio is recognized as the philospher of speed and as an authority on war technology.
	shopping.msn.com /results/shp/?text=paul+virilio+... (733 words)

	CTheory.net
		Paul Virilio: First of all, if I have spoken of a link between war and aesthetics, it is because there is something I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.
		Paul Virilio: GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.
		The editor of Paul Virilio: From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (2000), he is currently editing Virilio Live: Selected Interviews for publication in 2001 and Economies of Excess, a forthcoming issue of parallax, a journal of metadiscursive theory and cultural practices.
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=132 (4716 words)

	Enculturation: David Beard and Joshua Gunn
		The works of Paul Virilio are diverse and cut across several disciplinary communities (political science, media theory, art criticism, architecture, urban studies, cultural studies), so an exhaustive primer of Virilio’s work for rhetorical scholars remains for a later project.
		Virilio’s theory is both contemporary (in that he analyzes the most current technologies) and historically grounded (in that he places these technologies along a continuum of prior technological development).
		Virilio distinguishes an "aesthetic of appearance" from an "aesthetic of disappearance" based on his reading of film within the history of art: "So, we move from the persistence of a material -- marble or the painter's canvas [an aesthetic of appearance]-- to the cognitive persistence of vision [an aesthetic of disappearance]" (Politics 22- 23; Aesthetics).
	enculturation.gmu.edu /4_2/beard-gunn/media.html (1125 words)

	Paul Virilio: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Modernism in the cultural historical sense is generally defined as the new artistic and literary styles that emerged in the decades before 1914 as artists rebelled...
		Virilio's predictions about 'logistics of perception' - the use of images and information in war - (in War and Cinema[Click link for more facts about this topic], EHandler: no quick summary.
		Paul Virilio was born in Paris Paris quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/paul_virilio.htm (1918 words)

	Dromologies: Paul Virilio: Speed, Cinema, and the End of the Political State, Shawn Wilbur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Virilio is at once an urbanist, a historian of war and of cinema, a philosopher of speed, a theorist of human subjectivity, a postmodernist--sharing a great deal of terminology and approach with Baudrillard--and,as he frewuwntly point out in interviews, a Christian.
		Virilio suggests that almost all of the early functions of fortification and traffic control were devoted to slowing down traffic through or toward the city, or of barring entrance to it.
		Paul Virilio is clearly neither precisely what we have come to expect from "political" theorist, not a straw-man "postmodernist." He does not play the coy political games of Jean Baudrillard, and he has--in an expression that I suspect we might make much of--"more gravity" than Arthur Kroker or the "libidinal" Jean-Francois Lyotard.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/media301/dromologies.htm (6070 words)

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		Paul Virilio: As theme for this conversation about the public view, I would like to quote a sentence from Maurice Merlau-Ponty: ‘The problem, what is the subject of the state, what is the subject of war, is of exactly the same nature as knowing the subject of perception.’
		Paul Virilio: Here we come back to the sentence by Marcel Duchamp: ‘It is the spectators who make the pictures.’ The picture does not exist through the view or the hand of the artist who creates the picture, but through the view of the potential spectator.
		Paul Virilio: In the new public view, that is, that of electronic mass media, lies a moment of making blind which will continue to develop.
	www.ljudmila.org /scca/urbanaria/txt/e/virilio.htm (4415 words)

	Paul Virilio - The MIT Press
		Paul Virilio is considered the most important theorist of technology since Heidegger.
		Virilio discusses the relationship of war trauma and art and the failure of visual art to reinvent itself when confronted with technology.
		In a multidisciplinary excavation of contemporary physics, architecture, esthetic theory, and sociology, Virilio traces the dystopic unity of the contemporary Western predicament with lightning prescience and clarity.
	mitpress.mit.edu /catalog/author?sid=EAA741E4-06B0-45CD-8BFF-48B609C47CF1&aid=1176 (132 words)

	Paul Virilio: The Clairvoyant in the Age of Total Transparency
		I am sure Virilio who always try to be up to date with his theory will implement this scientific discovery pretty soon and maybe this will force the Live-theory of Dromology once again to a moment of reflection like in 1989 where his theory was overtaken by the actual events.
		While Virilio laments the disappearing as a catastrophy for politics and society, he praises it at the same time as a principle of cognition and aesthetic method.[..] To read Virilio means to see what is invisible, to interpretate, what has never been written: the emptiness, the spaces in between, the fl between the pictures.
		Virilio is the thinker of absence, of disappearing, of negativity and of the future.
	www.medientheorie.org /cyberhobbit/clairvoyant.htm (4778 words)

	Steve Redhead - News
		In 2002-3 Steve completed two books on the French urban theorist Paul Virilio for Edinburgh University Press, published in 2004 This work is part of a general project which involves the rethinking of modernity and the place of social theory.
		This is the first authoritative study of the life and work of French urban and cultural theorist Paul Virilio.
		It is prefaced by an editorial introduction showing that Virilio has produced important - if controversial - 'theory at the speed of light' that can uncannily illustrate the impact of new information and communications technologies in a world which collapses time and distance as never before.
	www.steveredhead.com /news.htm (231 words)

	Dia bookshop: ITEM PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Some will see Virilio as a pessimist discouraged by "the acceleration of the reality of time," while others will find his recording of "atypical events" to be clairvoyant.
		Paul Virilio traces the twin development of art and science over the 20th Century, a development that emerges as a nightmare dance of death.
		In Virilio's scorching vision, art and science vie with each other for the destruction of the human form as we know it.
	www.diabooks.org /diabooks/item.jsp?itemID=3540 (155 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Panic stations
		Paul Virilio's apocalyptic new work begins with fond memories of Paris, the city of his birth, but by the end of the book all cities have become "concentration camps".
		Virilio is an impressive commentator on the conditioning power of the mass media and the way in which every shattering event - from natural catastrophes to the Columbia shuttle disaster and the attack on the twin towers - gets world coverage and is put on a loop.
		Virilio maintains that the global village has created hyperterrorism as its "integral accident" (just as derailment is the integral accident of a train).
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,1577083,00.html (575 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Paul Virilio
		PAUL VIRILIO'S ideas sound a bit like they're coming from the mouth of a late-'60s sci-fi movie character--some philosopher-of-the-future warning about dangers hidden in a powerful new imaginary technology.
		Virilio, a French writer whose books are stacked alongside postmodernists like Foucault and Baudrillard, argues here that our relationship with day-to-day reality has been transformed in dark and frightening ways.
		Describing his dystopian virtual universe, Virilio makes his prose do somersaults through flaming conceptual hoops, inventing new words to explain ideas that would be difficult to reach if the trip weren't so much fun.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.06.97/lq-virilio-9745.html (591 words)

	A Landscape of Events -- Paul Virilio Julie Rose Bernard Tschumi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In his new collection of essays, Paul Virilio returns to the very Virilian themes of the influence of the military on the contemporary imagination, the acceleration of time, urban disorientation, and the seeming omnipotence of mass mediated images.
		Virilio examines these concepts through the events of the past decade, including the bombing of the World Trade Center, the Gulf War, the demolition of a French housing project, and the fiftieth anniversary of D-day.
		Virilio exposes the ways in which these events and their reception underscore our changing conceptions of both real and historical time.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0262720345 (245 words)

	Open Sky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Deepening and extending his earlier work, he explores the growing danger of what he calls a “generalized accident,” provoked by the breakdown of our collective and individual relation to time, space and movement in the contex of global electronic media.
		Paul Virillo makes a powerful case for a new ethics of perception, and a new ecology, one which will not only strive to protect the natural world from pollution and destruction, but will also combat the devastation of urban communities by proliferating technologies of control and virtuality.
		Paul Virilio, writer and urbanist, was born in 1932.
	www.versobooks.com /books/tuvwxyz/tuv-titles/virilio_open_sky.shtml (370 words)

	Alibris: Paul Virilio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Representing the next wave of French social theorists, Paul Virilio's unique perspectives on modern society and the impact of new technology on everyday life are presented in this comprehensive reader.
		Written with his characteristic flair, Virilio's latest book is a trenchant denunciation of the Kosovo war in which he successfully unites theory with a riveting study of the conflict.
		Tearing aside the veil of hypocrisy in which the USA and its allies wrapped the war, Virilio demonstrates that the nature of the bombing was set by strategic rather...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Virilio,Paul (952 words)

	French Culture \| books: Paul Virilio, A Landscape of Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In A Landscape of Events, the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s.
		It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces." Urban disorientation, the machines of war, and the acceleration of events in contemporary life are Virilio's ongoing concerns.
		Paul Virilio is Professor at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris.
	www.frenchculture.org /books/releases/virilio.html (156 words)

	Unknown Quantity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Writer and urbanist Paul Virilio is considered to be one of the most important and incisive contemporary critics of technology and its moral, political, and cultural implications.
		For Virilio, to invent the ship is to invent the shipwreck, to invent electricity is to invent electrocution.
		Paul Virilio has also invited visionary architect Lebbeus Woods and award-winning journalist Svetlana Aleksievitch to contribute texts to this catalogue.
	www.wwnorton.com /thamesandhudson/new/spring03/597625.htm (233 words)

	Web-specific art. Het World Wide Web als artistiek medium (1997)
		Virilio benadrukt de keerzijde van de medaille van technologie - de lichtsnelheid die bereikt wordt met de elektronische netwerken brengt een wereldwijde informatie-catastrofe binnen handbereik.
		Virilio waarschuwt dat het nieuwe militair-technologische complex niet noodzakelijk een virtuele democratie zal voortbrengen, en benadrukt de impact van een nieuwe politieke klasse die de media in zijn machtsstrijd hanteert, met het verkiezingssucces van Silvio Berlusconi in Italië als voorbeeld.
		In verband met kunst en esthetica leverde Virilio in de jaren '70 en '80 commentaar op het "openbare beeld", dat een animatiebeeld is en zijn oorsprong vindt in de fotografie en de film.
	www.spinster.be /web-specific-art/hfdst2/B3.html (744 words)

	Virilio: The Art of the Motor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This, Paul Virilio tells us, is the third dimension of matter, replacing old notions of information as mass and energy.
		According to Virilio, the incredible pace of the mutation of appearances—made possible by the "art of the motor"—ends up mutating reality itself.
		Paul Virilio is an urbanist, architect, and writer who lives and teaches at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/V/virilio_art.html (242 words)

	JMB 3.2 (Jun 2002): Vannini: Waiting Dynamics
		Paul Virilio (1986b: 17) tells us that the city has ended its role of primary political form and now speed, as pure circulation of everything has overthrown traditional relations of space and time.
		Virilio's trick in The Aesthetics of Disappearance, is then to operate a Gestalt shift; that is, not to think of velocity, as in movement toward a point, but of speed as in the obliteration of distance between here and there.
		Virilio in fact believes that the cosmos is now to be apprehended through speed and in speed (e.g.
	mundanebehavior.org /issues/v3n2/vannini.htm (5103 words)

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