The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
About Paul Virilio
Paul Viriliowas a French cultural theorist, urbanist, architect and aesthetic philosopher. 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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The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
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Science, which is not so attached to ‘truth’ as it once was, ut more to immediate ‘effectiveness’, is now drifting towards a decline, it’s civic fall from grace.
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Images contaminate us like viruses.
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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.
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War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
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