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Paul Virilio Reader

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ISBN-10: 0231134835

ISBN-13: 9780231134835

Edition: 2005

Authors: Paul Virilio, Steve Redhead

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If nothing else, the war in Iraq and the 1991 Gulf War have taught us much about media and technology as key players in how war is waged, packaged for public consumption, and exported in real time to the rest of the globe. A critic of the art of technology, Paul Virilio has keenly observed that media images quite often constitute a strategy of war and that accident is becoming indistinguishable from attack. For more than fifty years Virilio has offered incisive and provocative criticism on technology and its moral, political, and cultural implications. Yet until now, much of his work, originally published in French, remains elusive in full English translation. The Paul Virilio Reader…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Director of the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris since 1975, writer and cultural theorist Paul Virilio has written sixteen books, including War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception, Open Sky, Art and Fear,and The Information Bomb.Steve Redhead has been professor of law and popular culture in England and visiting professor in communications and cultural studies in Canada and Australia. He has published a dozen books including Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture.

Acknowledgements
Editorial Introduction: Theory at the Speed of Light
Bunker Archaeology
Cryptic Architecture
Architecture Principe
The End of the Proletariat
Pure Power
The Aesthetics of Disappearance
The Overexposed City
The Imposture of Immediacy
The Last Vehicle
Candid Camera
Environment Control
Desert Screen
The Data Coup d'Etat
From Sexual Perversion to Sexual Diversion
Delirious New York
The Information Bomb
Strategy of Deception
Silence on Trial
Ground Zero
The Museum of Accidents
Paul Virilio: A Directory
Index