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Paul Virilio is a leading cultural theorist and is well known for his writings on technology, war, speed and power. His many books include War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception, The Original Accident and The
University of Disaster.
"One of the most verbally exuberant of modern philosophers."<br /><i><b>The Guardian</b></i> <p> "Paul Virilio has long been one of the most fascinating and provocative thinkers of our contemporary moment."<br /><b>Douglas Kellner, UCLA</b></p> <p> "If Walter Benjamin had one true intellectual descendant who extended his inquiries into the second half of the twentieth century, this must be Paul Virilio."<br /><b>Lev Manovich, author of <i>The New Media</i></b></p>
Exploring the shifts in scale involved in such population flows and the fraught and complex relationship between sedentary settlement and globalization, Virilio considers what the resultant loss of identity might mean, not only in terms of the exhaustion of biodiversity, but also in terms of the catastrophic elimination of temporal diversity, with the compression and fragmentation of time enabled by the nanotechnologies in an ever increasing acceleration of reality. This previously unimaginable prospect is brought closer by the accident of an instant that wipes out all distinction between past, present and future within the black hole of globalized interconnectivity.
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Paul Virilio is a leading cultural theorist and is well known for his writings on technology, war, speed and power. His many books include War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception, The Original Accident and The
University of Disaster.