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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Virilio |
| ISBN: | 1845203585 9781845203580 9781845202248 1845202244 |
| OCLC Number: | 184855297 |
| Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
| Description: | xi, 148 p. ; 19 cm. |
| Contents: | Tabula rasa -- The democracy of emotion -- Kriegstrasse -- An accident in time -- City of panic -- The twilight of place. |
| Series Title: | Culture machine series. |
| Other Titles: | Ville panique. |
| Responsibility: | Paul Virilio ; translated by Julie Rose. |
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'Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America's out-of-control war of prevention.' The Guardian 'A speed-driven stream of consciousness centring on the city-world, the metropolitics of globalization, telesurveillance, bunkerization and hyperterrorism.' Times Literary Supplement 'It is no accident that when Virilio's dromology (the study of speed) crashes head-long into semiology (the study of signs) the order of things starts to look precarious. Over a diverse career as professor of architecture, film critic, urbanist, military historian, and peace strategist, Virilio has interrogated the integral relationships of security and territory, war and cinema, speed and politics, technology and culture, and left no prisoners.' James Der Derian, author of Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment Network 'If Walter Benjamin had one true intellectual descendant who extended his inquiries into the second half of the twentieth century, this must be Paul Virilio.' Lev Manovich, author of The Language of New Media 'One of the most verbally exuberant of modern philosophers.' The Guardian Read more...
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