I have said many times before, interactivity is the equivalent of radioactivity. For interactivity effects a kind of disintegration, a kind of rupture.
Paul VirilioIf we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.
Paul VirilioThere is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy.
Paul VirilioMany people question their religious identity today, not necessarily by thinking of converting to Judaism or to Islam: it's just that technologies seriously challenge the status of the human being. All technologies converge toward the same spot, they all lead to a Deus ex Machina, a machine-God.
Paul Virilio