Landscape of Events

Name: Landscape of Events
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ISBN: 9780262720342

ISBN-10: 0262720345

ISBN-13: 9780262720342

Edition: 2000

Authors: Paul Virilio, Julie Rose, Bernard Tschumi, Galilee Staff

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introduction by Bernard Tschumi In A Landscape of Events, the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usual clumps of habits and commonplaces." Urban disorientation, the machines of war, and the acceleration of events in contemporary life are Virilio's ongoing concerns. He explores them in events ranging from media coverage of the Gulf War to urban rioting and lawlessness. Some will see Virilio as a pessimist discouraged by "the acceleration of the reality of time," while others will find his…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/4/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 130
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English