Bunker Archeology

Name: Bunker Archeology
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ISBN: 9781568980157

ISBN-10: 1568980159

ISBN-13: 9781568980157

Edition: 1994

Authors: Paul Virilio

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In Bunker Archeology, urban philosopher and cultural theorist Paul Virilio turns his attention and camera to the ominous yet strangely compelling German bunkers from WW II that lie abandoned on the coast of France. These ghostly reminders of destruction and oppression prompt Virilio to consider the nature of war and existence, in relation to both the Second World War and contemporary times. This is the ﬁrst English-language translation of the French edition published in 1975 to accompany the exhibition of Paul Virilio's photographs at the Pompidou Center. The author's haunting photographs are accompanied by his analysis of the architecture of war in both philosophical and concrete terms.…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 12/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



Preface


Military Space


The Fortress


The Monolith


Typology


Albert Speer


Cartography


Chronology


War Landscape


Anthropomorphy and Zoomorphy


The Monuments of Peril


Series and Transformations


An Aesthetics of Disappearance


Directives of War


Afterword


Index


Bibliography


Biography