We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? Automated trading programmes!

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

Today, the army only occupies the territory once the war is over.

If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation have been used for war. For example, video was created after the Second World War in order to radio-control planes and aircraft carriers. Thus video came with the war. It took twenty years before it became a means of expression for artists.

Look at the Intifadah in Jerusalem. One cannot understand that phenomenon, a phenomenon where people, often very young boys, are successfully harassing one of the best armies in the world, without appreciating their freedom to move!

Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.