Thus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory.
Paul VirilioSovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.
Paul VirilioNowadays, the tragedy of war is mediated through technology. It is no longer mediated through a human being with moral responsibilities.
Paul VirilioThere is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.
Paul VirilioThe high level of the technologies used during the Gulf War makes this conflict quite unique, but the very process of de-realization of the war started in 1945. War occured in Kuwait, but it also occured on the screens of the entire world. The site of defeat or victory was not the ground, but the screen.
Paul Virilio