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Titre:
The original accident

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Urging us to face up to the consequences of our braves-new-world technologies, Virilio calls for the creation of a Museum of the Accident to fight our habituation to horror and violence, and our daily overexposure to terror, in the name, not of some preventive war, but of a preventive intelligence that would help us deal with both natural and artificial disasters.

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City of Panic

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City of Panic opens with a journey across the airy boulevards of Paris and into the crypt pf its Metro. Along the way, City of Panic tells the story of all cities. Cities everywhere are being reconstructed through a campaign of panic, the proliferation of gated-communities, policed shopping malls, the ever-widening net of surveillance, and a media consistently fabricating a world of fear. As the past is torn downand replaced with an identikit present we seem to have accpted that our cities really are war zones and that every city must ben the same.

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Art as far as the eye can see

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Art as far as the eye can see puts art back where it matters, at the center of politics. Art used to be an engagement between artist and materials. But, in our new media world, art has changed; its very materials have changed and have become technologized. This change reflects a broader social shift. Speed and politics, what Virilio defined as the key characteristics of the twentieth century, have been and mass culture. And the defining characteristics of mass culture today is panic.

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Paul Virilio: bunker archeology

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Out of print for almost a decade, this cult book is finally back. In 1994, the first English-language translation of the classic French edition of 1975 - which accompanied an exhibition of Virilio's photographs at the Centre Pompidou -, was published.

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The art of the motor

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This book represents a major new statement of Virilio's highly original philosophy of technology. It includes analysis of such recent developments as nanotechnology and virtual reality. Translated by Julie Rose.

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Open sky

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Deepening and extending his earlier work, Paul Virilio explores the growing danger of what he calls a "generalized accident," provoked by the breakdown of our collective and individual relation to time, space and movement in the contex of global electronic media. Translated by Julie Rose.

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Architecture principe 1966 et 1996

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À l'occasion de son trentième, le manifeste Architecture Principe réédite l'intégrale des neuf numéros parus en 1966 et lance son dixième et tout dernier numéro, sous le titre ''Désorientation ou Dislocation''. Avec des essais de CoopHimmelb(l)au, Daniel Libeskind, Jean Nouvel, François Seigneur, Bernard Tschumi et Frédéric Migayrou.

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The information bomb

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"Civilization or the militarization of science?" With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new information technologies over our lives . . . and deaths. After the era of the atomic bomb, Virilio posits an era of genetic and information bombs which replace the apocalyptic bang of nuclear death with the whimper of a subliminally reinforced eugenics. We are entering the age of euthanasia. These exhilarating bulletins from the information war extend the range of Virilio's work. "The Information Bomb" spans everything from Fukuyama to Larry Flynt, the Sensation exhibition of New British Art to space travel, all seen through the optic of Virilio's trenchant and committed theoretical position.

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A winter's journey: four conversations with Marianne Brausch

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French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in this publication are four conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Brausch look at a twentieth century characterized by enormous technological acceleration and by technocultural accidents of barbarism and horror. The dialogues in "A Winter’s Journey" —structured loosely around the dates 1940, 1950, 1960, and 1980— chart Virilio’s intimate intellectual biography, from his childhood lived against the unstable backdrop of a heavily bombed, wartime Nantes to maturity in a crisis space that is neither entirely militarized nor yet fully civilian, but somewhere between the two. In the course of these conversations, Virilio and Brausch ultimately find hope that in understanding the events of the last century and the cultural responses spawned by them, we can create a more humane era that is more adept at handling the transformations of its technology and culture.

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Paul Virilio : the administration of fear

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We are living under the administration of fear: fear has become an environment, an everyday landscape. There was a time when wars, famines, and epidemics were localized and limited by a certain time frame. Today, it is the world itself that is limited, saturated, and manipulated, the world itself that seizes us and confines us with a stressful claustrophobia. Stock-market crises, undifferentiated terrorism, lightning pandemics, "professional" suicides.... Fear has become the world we live in.