Already, viral contamination offers an initial response to the question of the downside of electronic circuits, but another area of research beckons the area of ecological pollution. The pollution not only of air, water, and other substances, but also the unperceived pollution of distances.

There is, then, a link between the logistics of perception, the wars in Lebanon and the Gulf as well as with CNN and the Pentagon.

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

For instance, the Persian Gulf War was a miniature world war. It took place in a small geographical area. In this sense it was a local war. But it was one that made use of all the power normally reserved for global war.

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

'Cyberwar' has nothing to do with the destruction brought about by bombs and grenades and so on.