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Paul Virilio

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Quotes by Paul Virilio

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An old Japanese friend recently confided to me: ′ I can’t forgive to americans for the fact that Hiroshima wasn’t an act of war, but an experiment’.
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The true hero of the American utopia is neither the cowboy nor the soldier, but the pioneer, the pathfinder, the person who ‘takes his body, where his eyes have been’.
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It is, in fact, impossible clearly to distinguish economic war from information war, since each involves the same hegemonic ambition of making commercial and military exchanges interactive.
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By the way, who invented Peace?
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The reconciliation of nothing and reality and the suspension of time and space by high velocities replace the exoticism of journeys with a vast expanse of emptiness.
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Since there was no longer a horizon towards which to rush, they would invent fake ones – substitute horizons.
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It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed ‘the integral accident’ that is the continuation of politics by other means.
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From the original watchtower through the anchored balloon to the reconnaissance aircraft and remote sensing-satellites, one and the same function has been indefinitely repeated, the eye’s function being the function of a weapon.
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There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We’ll dream of being blind.
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War is cinema, and cinema is war.
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