The globally constituted accident can be compared to what people who work at the stock exchange call 'systemic risk'.
Paul VirilioAs I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else!
Paul VirilioOne can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!
Paul VirilioIf we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.
Paul VirilioWe are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass and treble tones, just like we now have stereoscopy and stereophony: there will be two realities: the actual, and the virtual. Thus there is no simulation, but substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. The splitting of reality in two parts is a considerable event which goes far beyond simulation.
Paul Virilio