The Paul Virilio reader / edited by Steve Redhead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Virilio, Paul.

Contributor:

Redhead, Steve, 1952-

Series:

European perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Civilization, Modern--1950-.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

viii, 274 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]

Summary:

A critic of the art of technology, Paul Virilio has taught us that media images are often a strategy of war and that accident is becoming indistinguishable from attack. In these times of fierce conflict over which kind of capitalism is to take over the shrinking globe, and indeed which modernities we will live in during the twenty-first century, Paul Virilio is a significant contemporary theorist. But Virilio's work, originally published in French and dating back to the 1950s, has until now been difficult to access in full in English translation. The Paul Virilio Reader collects for the first time extracts of Virilio's work from the entire range of his career. Steve Redhead's introduction shows that Virilio has produced important - if controversial - "theory at the speed of light" that can uncannily illuminate the impact of new information and communications technologies in a world that collapses time and distance as never before. Arranged chronologically, the Reader illustrates the development and interconnectedness of Virilio's work. Each extract is prefaced by a bibliographical and contextual commentary, and the book includes an innovative guide to reading Virilio.

Contents:

1 Bunker Archaeology 11

2 Cryptic Architecture 15

3 Architecture Principe 19

4 The End of the Proletariat 25

5 Pure Power 45

6 The Aesthetics of Disappearance 57

7 The Overexposed City 83

8 The Imposture of Immediacy 101

9 The Last Vehicle 109

10 Candid Camera 121

11 Environment Control 135

12 Desert Screen 155

13 The Data Coup d'Etat 165

14 From Sexual Perversion to Sexual Diversion 175

15 Delirious New York 191

16 The Information Bomb 197

17 Strategy of Deception 209

18 Silence on Trial 225

19 Ground Zero 235

20 The Museum of Accidents 255

Paul Virilio: A Directory / Steve Redhead 263.

Notes:

Originally published: United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0231134827

0231134835

OCLC:

55124884