Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.
Paul VirilioFor me, Sun Tzu's statement that military force is based upon deception is an extraordinary statement.
Paul VirilioI have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.
Paul VirilioThus my research on dromology, on the logic and impact of speed, necessarily implies the study of the organisation of territory.
Paul VirilioThere cannot be an animal body without a territorial body: three bodies are grafted over each other: the territorial body - the planet, the social body - the couple, and the animal body - you and me. And technology splits this unity, leaving us without a sense of where we are. This, too, is de-realization.
Paul Virilio