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Self-professed `urbanist', political thinker, and `critic of the art of technology', Paul Virilio is one of the most significant and stimulating French cultural theorists writing today. Increasingly hailed as the 'archaeologist of the future' and the inventor of the concept of `dromology', Virilio is noted for his proclamation that the logic of ever increasing acceleration lies at the heart of the organization and transformation of the contemporary world.
Paul Virilio incorporates a variety of studies and asks who is Paul Virilio? What is the significance of dromology and disappearance? And what are the principal cultural themes of his important writings? The first book to afford a properly critical evaluation of Virilio's cultural theory, it includes an interview with Virilio; a recently translated example of his work; and a select bibliography of his writings. The commissioned contributions by leading cultural and social theorists examine Virilio's work from his early speculations on military and urban space to his current writings on dromology, politics, new communications technologies, disappearance, and the fallout from `the information bomb'. Paul Virilio is required reading for all fellow archaeologists of the future, `dromologists', and other students of critical cultural and social theory.
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New York, Paul Virilio, Second World War, Open Sky, Cold War, Claude Parent, Gulf War, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Architecture Principe, University of Minnesota Press, John Armitage, Julie Rose, Thousand Plateaus, Der Derian, Ecological Struggles, Jean Baudrillard, Indiana University Press, The Lost Dimension, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Neil Leach, Philippe Petit, University of California Press, Atlantic Wall, First World War New!
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SELF-PROFESSED 'urbanist', political thinker and 'critic of the art of technology', Paul Virillo is one of the most significant and stimulating French cultural theorists writing today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
habitable circulation, integral accident, bunker archeology, transplant revolution, pure war, polar inertia, big optics, overexposed city, technological fundamentalism, main published works, oblique function, vision machine, technological time, flesh machine, original emphases, human sensorium, revolutionary resistance, social territories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Paul Virilio, Second World War, Open Sky, Cold War, Claude Parent, Gulf War, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Architecture Principe, University of Minnesota Press, John Armitage, Julie Rose, Thousand Plateaus, Der Derian, Ecological Struggles, Jean Baudrillard, Indiana University Press, The Lost Dimension, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Neil Leach, Philippe Petit, University of California Press, Atlantic Wall, First World War New!
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- Open Sky by Paul Virilio on 25 pages
- The Vision Machine (Perspectives) by Paul Virilio on 19 pages
- Polar Inertia (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Paul Virilio on 12 pages
- Speed and Politics: An Essay on Dromology (Foreign Agents Series) by Paul Virilio on 11 pages
- War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception by Paul Virilio on 10 pages
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- The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium by Steven Best PhD in Back Matter
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